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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Anthony Stedman <tstedman@tpg.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:58:57 +0930

Re: Probing external SCSI devices

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:20:27PM +0930, Anthony Stedman wrote:

> > Under 2.2, how does one probe external SCSI devices? I plugged my AIT
> > drive in, and it didn't detect it automagically.
>
> To use them after powering them on with out a system reboot I have to remove 
> the advansys module (rmmod advansys) then re-insert the module (insmod 
> advansys) then all is ok.

Unfortunately, the majority of the machines that the AIT drive will
get attached to have active filesystems on SCSI drives, hence I cannot
unload the controller module :-)

Eeek! Methinks it's time to convert the rest of my Linux servers to
FreeBSD :-)

   - andrew

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