PS. I'm trying to help a customer right now that let a hardware guy replace a tape drive in their SQL server box without powering it down. Obvious spark - crashed the raid-array - failed to rebuild properly - 4 hours on the phone with MS last night to recover "allowing data loss". Now I get to recon the data to see if we have any issues. One 4-minute backup and copy the .BAK file off the server would have prevented this 5 day drama!
OMG! You let a hardware guy near some hardware? I thought that they were just office ornaments . . . .