From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Sep 29 21:16:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA00397 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:16:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00392 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26680 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Sep 1997 04:16:44 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha-092597 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199709292142.OAA14361@iago.ienet.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: pius@ienet.com Subject: RE: adding SCSI drive to a live system Cc: terryl@ienet.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi pius@ienet.com; On 29-Sep-97 you wrote: > > Is it possible to add a SCSI drive to a running system? > > The system is running FreeBSD 2.1.7.1-stable (last cvsupped and made > world on May 9, 1997). > > Can one connect the drive to the SCSI bus and then probe all devices > on the bus again? The -p option to the scsi(8) command claims to be > able to do this, but the "super scsi" device mentioned in the man page > doesn't seem to exist. > > Any ideas on how to achieve this? I do not remember the details on the software side, but you have to be careful on the hardware side. Most scsi subsystems belch when devices physically connect and disconnect under power. --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313