[plug] SCSI device rescan...

[Scott, Simon]

from memory you have to echo something into one of the /proc files

Check the doco on SANE (if you have it handy), I think it mentions how to
get linux to connect to a scsi scanner if you bootup with it switched off.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Phillips [mailto:phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au]
> Sent: Friday, 18 August 2000 1:44
> To: PLUG Mailing List
> Subject: [plug] SCSI device rescan...
> 
> 
> Is there any "nice" way under Linux to rescan the SCSI bus? 
> ie; Stick on/take
> off SCSI devices and rescan the SCSI bus without needing to reboot.
> 
> I've done it before by unloading/reloading the kernel module 
> for a SCSI driver,
> but this one is not a module, but compiled in...
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