From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 11 00:19:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB4116A41C for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:19:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@dylangoss.com) Received: from server20.olicentral.com (server20.olicentral.com [216.121.191.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AE843D49 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:19:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@dylangoss.com) Received: from [192.168.1.155] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server20.olicentral.com (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id j5B0JrP12541 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:19:53 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <5955634E-FB6A-4719-8C61-4D07EB82C190@dylangoss.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD questions From: "D. Goss" Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:19:56 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Subject: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:19:58 -0000 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.