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From: luke <lgrady@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: hot swap scsi drive
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> I guess it will depend a lot on the hardware you have, but you probably
> want to try one or both of 'camcontrol stop' or 'camcontrol eject' before
> pulling the drive.  One of these should spin the drive down and leave it
> in a safe state to be removed.

this is exactly what i was looking for...thanks

> I assume you're in a position to try a few things out before you put this
> machine into production?

of course. just needed a starting point(camcontrol) and will test
further from there. thanks again for your help

--luke