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Subject: Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?
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In <20030330174932.H78282-100000@xs1.xs4all.nl>, Eveline <eveline@xs4all.nl> typed:
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> I'd like to know how to rescan the scsi bus in FreeBSD 4.7. I have an
> external scsi harddisk that I only switch on when needed. I would like to
> be able to mount the hd as soon as I've switched it on, without having to
> reboot my FreeBSD machine.

Camcontrol takes a rescan command. "camcontrol rescan all" is the
simple way, but see the camcontrol man page for details on how to
specify what to rescan.

	<mike
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