Many thanks to all who answered. This conference is something unbeliavable -
I got eight answers during the first 20 minutes after sending my question.
Some people adviced not to do it, some others told: try it.
I decided not to do it and to wait until the machine was free. The main
reason was the posibility of some garbage running through the wires into
the controller and into the PCI bus.
So: init 0, disconnect the old box, connect the new one (ofcourse with the
same SCSI ID) and go. Nothing more. No /dev creating, no kernel rebuilding.
The TZ89 can be connected to various SCSI controllers without any care - as
I remember from the documentation - fast wide differential, single-ended,
narrow... And the result? The backup of 81 GB SAP/Oracle data lasts 3
(three) hours instead of 7 hours with TZ88.
Martin
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Martin Dusek martin.dusek_at_pregis.cz
Czech Republic
Hi all,
please tell me if I can disconnect the tabletop TZ88 box from the SCSI bus
and connect a new TZ89 box without shutdowning the system and switching off
the power on our AlphaServer 4100.
Thanks in advance,
Martin Dusek
Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 17:05:21 NZDT