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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: adding SCSI drive to a live system
To: pius@ienet.com
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:18:26 +0100 (MET)
Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, terryl@ienet.com
In-Reply-To: <199709292142.OAA14361@iago.ienet.com> from "pius@ienet.com" at Sep 29, 97 02:42:42 pm
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As pius@ienet.com 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.

I tend to do things like:

scsi -r -f /dev/rsd0c (where sd0 is  my root disk, and therefore always
present). 

Please note that you better use some scsi bus / hot swap enclosure
if you want to do this.

Wilko
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