Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 19:27:49 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Derrell Lipman <derrell@vis-av.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probe() other than at boot time Message-ID: <2603.844396069@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:44:09 EDT." <199610032044.QAA04719@vis-av.com>
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> Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > Is there a way to force a probe while the system is running (i.e. at a > > > time other than boot time)? > > > > scsi -f /dev/sd0 -r > > Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, it didn't work. > > I assume that you meant /dev/rst0 since I was talking about the Actually, it seems to work with any device on the same bus as the device you're interested in - I do it this way to enable my scanner. Clearly you can't do it on the device which hasn't been probed yet since that'd be a chicken-and-egg scenario at best. :-) > After thinking about /dev/sd0, I decided that it _shouldn't_ do any > harm to try the above command on that device. Bad decision. It > crashed the machine. :-( Crash how? Clearly, you've found *another* problem now. ;-) Jordan
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