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On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Julian Elischer wrote:

>  FreeBSD cannot remove devices..
> but new scsi devices can be added (quiesce the system first ok?)
> see the -r option to scsi(8)
> 
> e.g. scsi -f /dev/sd0 -r 

	PLEASE note that this will completely occupy your system for a 
few seconds--in my case 11 seconds--it can be kinda scary!

Aspen:[173] date ; scsi -f /dev/sd0 -r ; date
Thu Jan 25 20:20:47 EST 1996
Thu Jan 25 20:20:56 EST 1996

Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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