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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!rain.fr!pressimage!usenet From: Bruno Morvan <bmorvan@hepta.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Need advices for SCSI DAT installation Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:40:45 +0100 Organization: HEPTA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32AC24ED.6566@hepta.fr> Reply-To: bmorvan@hepta.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.150.10.145 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) I plan to install an external DAT tape drive without rebooting a 2.1.0 freeBSD server. I'm a novice on freeBSD and I've got 3 questions: 1. How could i know the IDs of installed SCSI devices without stopping the system (to assign an unique ID for the external DAT)? 2. Can i plug the external SCSI drive while the system is running, whitout any kind of damages? (i've already do it on some RS/6000s...it's ok) 3. Is there any software configuration command to apply? (do the SCSI detection and probing are automatically done by the system after the peripheral is added?) the hardware is a Pentium, with BusLogic Bt946c SCSI controller and 2 SCSI hard drives. the DAT drives are an 4mm ARCHIVE Python 28388-XXX5.45 and a 8mm5gb IBM-8505 (Exabyte OEM). thanks in advance -- Bruno Morvan bmorvan@hepta.fr