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

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 13:12, Colin Murphy wrote:
> It is a habit I am finding really hard to break.  I will power up my SuSE 8 
> system but forget to power up the external SCSI CD-RW with it.  Hours/days 
> later I'll want to use the external drive and I will try to mount a disk, 
> only to get a pop up error message
> 
> 'mount:/dev/cdrecorder is not a valid block device'.
> 
> I then have to power down the system to get it working.
> 
> How do I get the external drive recognised without the reset?
> 

Maybe not relevant,
but on Irix there is a command to halt the SCSI bus while you
play around with SCSI peripherals.

Can anyone of our correspondents from Sistina, Veritas etc. say
what the state of play with that sort of thing on Linux is at the
moment?
(Bet the answer is 'RTFM you idiot! :-)



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