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Subject: Re: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?
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On Jun 10, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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

Sorry, forgot something quick - I'm reading the MAN pages now on  
camcontrol and the warnings associated with it.

If this server is in production later and has active users is there  
reason to think that a rescan would cause problems with and read/ 
writes happening at that time on the drives?

Thanks -

d.