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

[Colin Murphy]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:04 am, Richard Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Colin Murphy wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 4:09 pm, Stephen Harker wrote:

> >
> > So it's not just me, good.
> >
> > > What I do is remove the scsi card module (53c7,8xx in my case) and
> > > reload it again. This is only going to work if the cdrom is the only
> > > scsi device on that card (ie all your other disks are IDE) or you
> > > only have a scanner or zip drive on there as well (unmounted)

> >
> > Removing the module sounds like a really obvious thing to do, err, now
> > that you mention it.
> >
> > Why would this only work for the one drive though?  How is the process
> > of manually loading (or is 'starting' a better way of thinking about
> > it?) the module different from that of the system start up?
>
> I read that as meaning that if your root drive is on the same SCSI
> controller, removing the module isn't the safest thing to do...
>
...because you wuld be removing the filesystem that your machine relies on.  
Yes, it makes sense now.

-- 
Colin Murphy
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