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by linksnapzz 26 days ago
Hot swapping the failed half of a bonded NIC pair on a v880 was a treat…
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I come from an era when unplugging the RAM pack could blow every chip on the ZX80's board, so hot-swappable PCIe cards are just absolute fucking black magic to me.
Yeah, I almost had a heart attack the first time I saw someone do a 'cfgadm unconfigure' && 'cfgadm disconnect'; then pop open the side of a prod box, press a button and pull a card out.

"See, oracle's still running!"

Things like that used to be how one distinguished enterprise hw & sw vs. PCs w/ delusions of grandeur.