From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 11 01:42:58 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 91E5616A41C for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:42:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB4A43D1D for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:42:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j5B1gkUF015107; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:42:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:42:46 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "D. Goss" Message-ID: <20050611014246.GH4116@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5955634E-FB6A-4719-8C61-4D07EB82C190@dylangoss.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5955634E-FB6A-4719-8C61-4D07EB82C190@dylangoss.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: 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 01:42:58 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 10), D. Goss said: > 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. Try "camcontrol rescan all" to tell the kernel to rescan all the scsi busses. Otherwise there's no way for it to know you added a device. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com