Re: SCSI probing?

Douglas Gilbert (dgilbert@interlog.com)
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:21:25 -0500

> This might be obvious to someone, but not to me, so I figured I'd ask
> here.
>
> How do I, from kernel space, make the SCSI system re-probe for devices?
> The best way I've found so far is to basically make the same function call
> that doing an echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi does
> -- that looks safe, but is there a better way?

Another way is to build your scsi adapter driver as a
module and rmmod it and insmod it again. Naturally this
isn't a good idea if your root file system resides on
the effected scsi bus.

Doug Gilbert
P.S. Perhaps you could ask again on the linux-scsi newsgroup.

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