From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 10:24:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64C737B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:24:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D16E43E8A for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:24:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gAKIONom090675; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:24:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:24:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Bob Hall Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: connecting to SCSI drive Message-ID: <20021120182423.GB30909@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021120180314.GA564@sten.alder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021120180314.GA564@sten.alder.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 20), Bob Hall said: > I use a DVD burner for backups, and I usually forget to turn it on > when I boot my FBSD box. Turning it on and rebooting isn't a big > deal, but is there a way to get FBSD to see the drive without > rebooting? Is there a process that can be reset or a command that > tells FBSD that the drive exists? > > FreeBSD 4.4, external DVD-RAM drive. Power it on once before reboot, then run "camcontrol devlist". Note the bus, target, and lun numbers of the DVD drive. Then later you can use the "camcontrol rescan b:t:l" command to force the kernel to detect that device. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message