>On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Boris Tobotras wrote:
>> No, I can attach HDD on the fly.
>>
>> > So what exactly are you looking for ?
>>
>> Exactly SCSI bus rescan. Is it possible?
>It depends on the SCSI controller you are using.
>I implemented support for this quite some time ago.
>This is the comment: :-)
> /*
> * 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.
> */
Btw, this properly initializes Platters (LUN) 0-3 on my CD ROM
changer, and although Platter/LUN 4 and 5 are mentioned in the syslog
/dev/sr5 and /dev/sr6 are not useable afterwards. (The changer starts
at /dev/sr1 ...)
Btw, the feature works great after turning on my external streamer,
which has a fan that probably has been a hovercraft engine in it's
before life ;-)
Froh
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