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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@mmc.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:04:00 +0930

Re: Probing external SCSI devices

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:59:16AM +0930, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

> I have to admit it's a while since I've need to do this with a PC, but
> don't you have to go into the adapter bios and detect it there?  I think I 
> have to do that with my Adaptec 2940UW.  

... but that'd mean I'd have to take the server down, just to attach a
tape drive.

Under FreeBSD, it's a one-line command to reprobe the SCSI bus. I'd
assume that there's a similar beast under Linux.

   - andrew

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