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Re: questions about external SCSI -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulisses Alonso)
Wed May 13 04:13:31 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 07:21:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: Ulisses Alonso <ulisses@pusa.eleinf.uv.es>
Reply-To: ulisses@pusa.eleinf.uv.es
To: Harvey Fishman <fishman@panix.com>
cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980512212415.17840A-100000@panix3.panix.com>
Hello Harvey!
>
> It seems to me that what you would need is a daemon that periodically polls
> the bus to see what the current devices on it are, and then deletes the
> registration of devices that have been removed and registers new devices.
> That seems to be what the Apple O/S has, but I have no idea if there is one
> available for Linux. As far as I know Linux only polls the bus and does the
> registration at boot. Still, all the facilities required for the dynamic
> operation are present (I think) and the details of the poll and registration
> code are in the drivers. It seems to me that it should be relatively
> straight-forward to write such a thing if it does not presently exist. But
> I am not volunteering to do so. ;-)
Thanks a lot for this info
regards,
Ulisses
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