Yes, that's true. I went ahead and used the commands on 2.4. They worked just fine this time. :-)
The question about 2.6 was just for my own education -- for when I actually get around to installing SLES9 on my production server. Thanks to everyone for their help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric H. Raskin Voice: 914-765-0500 Professional Advertising Systems Inc. Fax: 914-765-0503 200 Business Park Dr Suite 107 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Armonk, NY 10504 -----Original Message----- From: Rajat Jain, Noida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: How to disconnect a SCSI device without crashing SLES8? Linux 2.6 ????? Uhh .... I thought you did not wanted to REBOOT the system???? The command syntax is same. Devices can be removed using the following command: echo "scsi remove-single-device <h> <b> <t> <l>" > /proc/scsi/scsi where the variables are host, bus (channel), target (scsi id) and lun. But the removal will fail if the device is busy (e.g. if a file system on the device is mounted). Rajat Jain HCL Technologies, A-11, Sector 16, Noida-201301. Ph: +91-120-2510701/702/813 Extn.3019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hcltech.com/ "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." Robert Firth -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Raskin Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:07 AM To: Linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: How to disconnect a SCSI device without crashing SLES8? Thanks, Christoph. Would we use the same commands on 2.6? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric H. Raskin Voice: 914-765-0500 Professional Advertising Systems Inc. Fax: 914-765-0503 200 Business Park Dr Suite 107 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Armonk, NY 10504 -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:25 PM To: Eric Raskin Cc: Linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to disconnect a SCSI device without crashing SLES8? On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:12:13PM -0500, Eric Raskin wrote: > In searching the web, I've found the "remove-scsi-device" and > "add-scsi-device" commands that can be sent to /proc/scsi/scsi. > > Does anybody know if the system will stay up if I use these commands > to remove all my tape library devices before shutting it down? Is > this the proper way to repair my library without having to shut the system off? remove-scsi-device could work, but in Linux 2.4 it's racy. If you want to remove and add devices at runtime safely you'll have to update to Linux 2.6. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
