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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Finding newly attached SCSI disks
Message-ID: <D8unvx.5p5@tfs.com>
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References: <3picul$k4f@overload.lbl.gov>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 23:57:32 GMT
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In article <3picul$k4f@overload.lbl.gov>,
Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote:
>I just bought BSD/OS 2.0. It seems to have same problem as FreeBSD and Linux.
just thought I'd put a little correction here..
you don't need to reboot under freebsd to see new drives..
just run
scsi -r -f {some scsi control device}
to tell the scsi system to look for new devices..
>The problem is if chaining some new SCSI disks on the SCSI bus, what is the
>command to make new disks visible to the system? Or I have to reboot machine
>to detect all disks on the SCSI bus.
>Also the disklabel command is not in the distribution, even manpage disksetup
>refered to it.
julian