Duane Percox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

<snip Eric's story>

>Different story, same result:
>
>In 1979 I had a contract to write some software for a Series III
>(the HP3k was new to me at the time). My first introduction to the
>system was made by Tony Engberg, the SE for the site, who after showing
>me the system proceeded to ***turn off all four 120 mb disk drives***.
>
>If I remember correctly, the console responded with messages like:
>
>ldev #1 not ready. Please make ldev #1 ready now!
>
>Until the disks were spun back up. Then everything continued to work
>as before. Very impressive indeed. As you can see it made a lasting
>impression on me as well.

And if you hit the UNLOAD button on the front of a 7933/7935 disk while the
volume was mounted you'd get the console message:
     DISMOUNT REQUEST REFUSED

And the drive would stay up and spinning!  It can be great when software
ignores hardware...

 -- Evan