G4 XServe hangs when hot swapping drives

[Geoff Lee]

On 4 Jul 2007, at 22:21, Chris Murphy wrote:

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> On Jul 4, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Geoff Lee wrote:
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>> What's in the system log?
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> Nothing, last entries depend on other things (if any) that were  
> going on prior to the unmounting.
>
>> Does df report that the drives have really been unmounted?
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> Machine has completely hanged. Can't ssh into it to run df or any  
> other tools.

Sorry, I meant after you've put it in the trash but before you've  
physically removed it.
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>> What happens if you use "diskutil unmountdisk" instead of dragging  
>> it to the trash?
>
> Don't know, I'll have to try that. Do you know what Disk Utility's  
> unmount command does? We've tried that also and it still hangs the  
> machine.

Hmm.. that should be exactly the same as the diskutil comandline as  
far as I'm aware.

-geoff