Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:19:56 -0700 From: "D. Goss" <lists@dylangoss.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot? Message-ID: <5955634E-FB6A-4719-8C61-4D07EB82C190@dylangoss.com>
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Hi, I've been digging via Google and can't seem to find this one. I think it's an easy one unless there is some hardware specificity: Experimenting with new IBM xSeries 345. It has six hot-swap U320 SCSI bays. Just got another hot-swap drive/tray that is an IBM part to add. I inserted drive with system up and running and then logged in via SSH and went to SU/root. From there I ran sysinstall. I went to partition the new drive (da2) and it was not seen - I was just presented with the current drives in the system (da0 and da1). I tried a few more times and cycled the drive. The LOM / remote access card was able to see the drive being removed and added and sent the corresponding alerts out. Still I couldn't see drive so I rebooted system and then it was available via sysinstall. What am I missing please? I would think with a hot-swap system the drive should be able to be found without a reboot. I didn't try dropping into single-user mode, maybe that would have done it too. My hope was to probe for the SCSI drive and find it while the system was fully up. Thanks in advance - d.
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