Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Grant R. Guenther" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI bus reset | Date | Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:25:19 -0400 (EDT) |
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> What I'm looking for is ability to use removable devices like IOmegas on > SCSI bus. Being on Solaris, I can use "drvconfig". What should I do for > Linux? Rebooting is a Bad Thing, I beleive.
If you are talking about removable *media*, which the reference to Iomega suggests, then Linux already takes care of this for you - it will happily detect media changes on your Iomega drive and rescan the partition table.
If you want hot-plugging on the SCSI bus, that's another thing entirely. (Which I for one would not want to try on standard PC hardware.)
The closest Linux analogue to Solaris' drvconfig would be Eric Youngdale's tool that builds SCSI symlinks in /dev. I could be wrong, but I don't believe drvconfig scans the SCSI buses - it merely examines the kernel's tables to rebuild the /devices pseudo-filesystem.
Can Solaris handle removable media other than floppies and CDs ? I would expect to have to do a reboot to get it to re-read the disk label ...
So what exactly are you looking for ?
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