> In practise you can hot-swap SCSI devices with just a small chance of
> blowing up stuff. At the company a friend works for, they fried an
> SGI's scsi bus, external CDROM drive, and the internal DAT drive by
> hotswapping the CDROM. I occasionally hot swap my equipment too.
> It usually survives.... :-)
The most common problem I have heard of is blowing the termination fuse,
at least on suns. I think modern scsi-designs usually have self-resetting
fuses (don't quote me on that though).
Peter