From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 26 20:40:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08055 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 20:40:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw (bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw [140.112.18.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA08047 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 20:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from woju@bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw) From: woju@bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw Received: (qmail 14183 invoked by uid 9999); 27 Dec 1998 04:43:48 -0000 Date: 27 Dec 1998 04:43:47 -0000 Message-ID: <19981227044347.14182.qmail@bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw> Reply-To: woju@bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Howto re-probe hardware in multiuser mode? X-Disclaimer: 臺大電機 Maxwell 站對本信內容恕不負責。 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: In SunOS, the "format" command probe and show info about online disks. Is there any tool in FreeBSD that can do similar thing? Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. sd3 at esp0 slave 0 sd3: Specify disk (enter its number): Furthermore, is it possible to "re-probe hardware" in multiuser-mode like kernel do in boot-stage? I wish to get hardware info in multiuser- mode. CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (200.46-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x562 Stepping=2 Features=0x8001bf real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 129781760 (126740K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: ... Although dmesg/syslog can show/log the info, the info would very likely fade out after long uptime. If anyone know the "some-tool" mentioned above, please let me know, thanks. - woju FreeBSD.org Search Engine http://doc.wj.o3.net FreeBSD Ports Search Engine http://ports.wj.o3.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message