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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: Mounting A Scsi Drive
To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 00:09:41 +0100 (MET)
Cc: afurman@sunfire.ucs.net, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199610031941.MAA17832@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Oct 3, 96 12:41:57 pm
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As Justin T. Gibbs wrote...
> 
> >I would like to know if their is a way to mount an External Scsi Tape
> >Drive once the system is up and running.  
> >Adam
> >
> >Adam Furman    
> >System Administrator of Sunfire.ucs.net
> >afurman@amf.net
> >Irc HUB Admin of irc.ucs.net
> >Mud Admin of sunfire.ucs.net:4000
> 
> In theory, you would just ask that the SCSI busses be reprobed, but there
> are a few problems with doing this right now.  It should work for the
> 2.2 release though.

For 215R this works fine on my P100 equipped with dual NCR810. Doing
the same on a DX2-50 with 215R and Adaptec 1740 has a good chance of
locking up the system.

Seems 'it depends'

Wilko
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