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Re: rescan devices command?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey B. Siegal)
Sun Jan 16 06:57:31 2000
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:03:59 -0800
From: "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <jbs@quiotix.com>
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To: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: "casler, heather" <casler_heather@emc.com>,
"'linux-scsi'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Is there a command that will rescan the devices out on the SCSI bus? In
> > short, I have a system attached to an external storage box with multiple
> > devices in it. I wanted to be able to add additional devices and try to
> > rescan the bus without having to reboot. Is there a simple command that will
> > allow me to do that?
You can't reliably do this without hot swap connectors. Standard SCSI
hardware is not designed for hot swap, and doing so can even result in
hardware damage. However, it usually does work in practice.
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