[plug] SCSI device rescan...

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Mon Aug 21 09:13:45 WST 2000


"Scott, Simon" wrote:
> 
> From http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9706.2/0267.html
> 
> > If I plug a new diskdrive into a scsicontroller on a live system, how
> > do I get the drive to be identified (as /dev/sdx or such) without
> > rebooting the bloody box ?
> 
> echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 1 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
> 
> will reprobe Card 0, Channel 0, Device 1, Lun 0, and add it if it is
> found.

Yeah, I found a nice-ish shell script off a site which does this all for you
(without needing to know settings). Works quite well!

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