[Gllug] Fireing up an external SCSI device once the system has started.

[Colin Murphy]

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 7:02 pm, Mick Wilkinson wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 May 2002  4:09 pm, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 12:12, Colin Murphy wrote:

> > >
> > > How do I get the external drive recognised without the reset?
> > >

> >
> > I do that as well.
> > What I do is remove the scsi card module (53c7,8xx in my case) and
> > reload it again. 
>
> Right I'm probably way out of my depth here but I thought it's about
> time I tried to contribute something to this list.

Ah, well, even if I don't get to understand all of this at least I will 
have pulled another lurker oout from the shadows!
>
> I just use 'scsiadd'  which I downloaded from somewhere (can't remember
> where) to fire up my external DAT drive. Seems to work fine for me.
> This is on a SuSE 7.2 system with kernel 2.4.7.
>
A quick search shows up a 'scsiadd' script which basically calls on what 
Tet first described

# echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi

which didn't work for me.  

I think I was calling the right device, I use 'dev=0,0,0' in cdrecord for 
instance.

-- 
Colin Murphy
SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk

A man for all seasons, 'specially pepper.


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