> From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 14:30:05 +1030 (CST)

> I chose an "idle" moment to diddle with my scsi bus on a SunOS 4.1.3
> machine - except that the machine a few seconds later decided to wake
> up and do something, just after I had removed the scsi terminator.
> The result was a totally trashed /  - fsck was finding so much wrong I
> just reloaded the whole OS because there was little point, things like
> /bin/sh were toast.... :-(

On Sun machines, this is easy:  Just drop into the PROM monitor for a
moment while you are messing with the SCSI cables.  NetBSD kernels
with DDB should be able to do the same - drop into ddb for a sec. 

Gordon