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Re: Rescan SCSI

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Tue Nov 17 02:42:02 1998

Date: 	Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:53:33 +0100
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: mike@vorburger.ch, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Mail-Followup-To: mike@vorburger.ch, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <000301be1149$ac25dd40$014670c3@mike-tp>; from Michael Vorburger on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:12:53AM +0100

On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:12:53AM +0100, Michael Vorburger wrote:
> Hello
> 
>   Is it possible to "rescan" the SCSI bus under LINUX to find devices like a
> JAZ drive which were not turned on at boot time, but now are? (Corresponding
> to a "Refresh" in "System Properties" / "Device Manager" under Win95 ?)

There's a echo "scsi add-single-device H C I L" >/proc/scsi/scsi command.
(H C I L is Host, Channel, SCSI ID, SCSI LUN, and numbering starts at 0, of
course.)

You can also try to write a script to automate this.
(Check the linux-scsi archive: I posted mine some time ago.)

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