It would be really nice if someone would bring this feature out of BETA
status. If it wasn't beta, I would have used it in my virtual HBA driver
instead of adding and removing entire virtual hosts.
Matt Dharm
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> It is possible to manually do this through the /proc filesystem. In
> scsi.c there are comments which describe how this works:
>
> /*
> * Usage: echo "scsi add-single-device 0 1 2 3" >/proc/scsi/scsi
> * with "0 1 2 3" replaced by your "Host Channel Id Lun".
> * Consider this feature BETA.
> * CAUTION: This is not for hotplugging your peripherals. As
> * SCSI was not designed for this you could damage your
> * hardware !
> * However perhaps it is legal to switch on an
> * already connected device. It is perhaps not
> * guaranteed this device doesn't corrupt an ongoing data transfer.
> */
>
> -Eric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ralston, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'linux-scsi' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:57 AM
> Subject: inducing SCSI bus scan
>
>
> > Is there any way for a SCSI driver to induce the scsi
> > mid-layer into rescanning its bus(ses)?
> > (well, besides unloading a scsi driver module and
> > reloading it)
> >
> > Example: Someone powers up devices after boot
> > or scsi driver module is loaded.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -SteveR
> >
> >
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