From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 09:55:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA27847 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 09:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ax433.mclink.it (ax433.mclink.it [192.106.166.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA27842 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 09:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pgw-137.mclink.it by ax433.mclink.it id aa23382; 2 Jun 96 18:55 CEST Message-ID: <31B1C7E9.15FB7483@mclink.it> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 18:57:13 +0200 From: Marco Masotti X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org CC: mc7953@mclink.it Subject: Getting Cdrom dynamically configured. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am using an external scsi Cdrom drive. I use this peripheral on other machines also, so sometimes it happens the drive is attached when the Freebsd box is already running. As a result I can't get the kernel see the Cdrom, because the device is not configured yet. Obviously just restarting the kernel makes the fix, but I'm looking for a flexible way to force detection of new hardware while the kernel is still running. Does anyone know how? Thanks, Marco M.