[ILUG] SCSI questions

[Kenn Humborg]

1. Is it safe to connect/disconnect a SCSI cable from 
   a powered-up device (either host adapter or disk/tape
   drive)?

2. Is it safe to power up/down an external SCSI device
   while the host adapter is powered?

3. Is the SCSI command set 'remotable'?  Could you, in
   theory, write a virtual SCSI port driver that would chuck
   the SCSI commands across a network to another machine
   which would then put them on a real SCSI bus, and return
   the device's response across the net?

(No 3 is a sick twisted plan for accessing my SCSI devices
from VMS even though I don't have a SCSI adapter in the VAX.
I do have one in my PC, and writing a SCSI port driver
for VMS shouldn't be too hard.  It would certainly be easier
than implementing the rmt protocol.)

Later,
Kenn