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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger) Subject: Reprobing SCSI devices... Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc X-no-archive: yes Lines: 44 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960722] Message-ID: <32d4389d.0@finesse.isdn.uni-konstanz.de> Date: 9 Jan 97 00:15:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: pc193.isdn.uni-konstanz.de Organization: University of Constance, Germany Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-konstanz.de!not-for-mail Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33851 I have quite a problem... I have an old SCSI tape drive (Tandberg TDC3600) which I put in an external box which I is very old, too. This drive works like a charm, but... when the external box isn't turned on at boot, st0 won't be attached because no tape drive is found (sure). So I found, looking at manual pages, the command scsi(8). In its manual page, there is described The -p option can be used against the "super scsi" device /dev/scsi/super to probe all devices with a given SCSI lun on a given SCSI bus. The bus can be selected with the -b option and the default is 0. The lun can be selected with the -l option and the default is 0. See scsi(4) for a de- scription of the "super scsi" device. Ok I thought, THIS would be a nice command. root@finesse: scsi -p -l 0 Usage: scsi -f .... and so on Hm so it WANTS this "super scsi" device after -f... This device does not exist on my system. I haven't found a mention of it in the scsi(4) man page nor in the MAKEDEV script in the /dev directory. How can I use the scsi(8) command to correctly reprobe the bus for devices to be able to attach my tape? :-) I have 2.1.5-RELEASE running here. My SCSI subsystems consists of an Adaptec 1542C adapter board, 1 IBM DORS-disk, 1 TOSHIBA-CD-ROM and an external TANDBERG tape. Pascal PS: I like this operating system. Works in a wonderful way here! -- Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de |Prefix +49 7531|Fon 16074|Fax 20370 -------------| http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1381/ |----+--------- Rechenzentrum| Tolles Internet, Teil IX: Gestern las man zuerst einen Monat Uni Konstanz | Usenet bevor man zum 1. Mal postete. Heute: "Aaaah mee too!"