As brian said you have to use echo "scsi add-single-disk a b c
d">/proc/scsi/scsi to insert
the new disque. Then I used scsi-start coming in the rpm scsi-idle to spin
up the disk.
(You don't need to patch the kernel with the scsi-idle stuff to have it work)
I've never tried the solution described by Marc.
(ftp.u.washington.edu/pub/user-supported/xyzzy/scsi-idle-2.2.10-1.i386.rpm)
I also saw some tar of this around...
>Thus a simple
>dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
>
>would revive the hard disk.
>
>in the mean time, you can send, with `sg' that command. Or
>et the disk jumper.
What is this 'sg' command by the way ?
At 18:49 03/10/99 +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote:
>Hi.
>I'm one of the many satisfied new RAID patch/toolchain users. I use
>the aic7xxx driver for the Adaptec chipset, which are both onboard
>and offboard. It works great.
>I have an issue though, about spinning up a SCSI disk after replacing
>a faulty one using hot swap. I know the drive can be jumpered to spin
>up at power on. But I would prefer factory settings to make it
>simple. I have successfully used /proc/scsi/scsi commands disabling
>the SCSI disk before hot swap and enable it again afterward. My
>problem is that the newly inserted disk never get ordered to spin up.
>It just sit there silently.
>Anyone know the spell to cast?
>I've looked around in the sources for a hint but no luck so far.
>It would be great if I could just cat something into the proc device.
>
>Any advices appreciated,
>
><tomas/>
