Re: How do I spin up a SCSI disk after being hot swapped?

[Tomas Fasth]

Brian Murphy wrote:

> echo "scsi add-single-disk a b c d">/proc/scsi/scsi

Yes, I already use this as part of the procedure of replacing faulty
drives. It doesn't spin up the disk for me though.

> This works with my hot plug setup to spin up and make the device
> accessible to the system.

Hm, not for me. But I'll check once more.
What kernel driver (type of SCSI controller) are you using?
Could it be that aic7xxx (Adaptec, which I use) behaves differently?

Thanks,
<tomas/>