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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!160.45.4.4!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Seeking advice on new system purchase Date: 2 Jan 1997 12:44:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5agaju$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59dhb9$p6g@shellx.best.com> <59r9ka$m4f@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <5a3vmj$59d@symiserver2.symantec.com> <5a8qi4$q4e@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33448 jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) wrote: > Can't the scsi(8) > command be used to reprobe the bus when a device has been added or > removed? It can, but only to add new devices. The kernel structures by now don't allow for a removal of old devices. A note of warning, however: `scsi -r' used to be broken for a long time, depending on the SCSI controller you're using. So watch out for bogons. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)