Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:42:46 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "D. Goss" <lists@dylangoss.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot? Message-ID: <20050611014246.GH4116@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <5955634E-FB6A-4719-8C61-4D07EB82C190@dylangoss.com> References: <5955634E-FB6A-4719-8C61-4D07EB82C190@dylangoss.com>
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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
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