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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 23:52:10 -0500
From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To: woju@bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Howto re-probe hardware in multiuser mode?
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Just look in /var/run/dmesg.boot.

Chris

On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 04:43:47AM -0000, woju@bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw wrote:
> Hi:
> In SunOS, the "format" command probe and show info about online disks.
> Is there any tool in FreeBSD that can do similar thing?
> 
> <SunOS "format">
> Searching for disks...done
> 
> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
>         0. sd3 at esp0 slave 0
>            sd3: <Quantum_1.08G cyl 2110 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
> Specify disk (enter its number):
> </SunOS "format">
> 
> 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.
> 
> <some-tool>
> CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (200.46-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x562  Stepping=2
>   Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
> real memory  = 134217728 (131072K bytes)
> avail memory = 129781760 (126740K bytes)
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> ...
> </some-tool>
> 
> 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
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