scanning scsi and ide bus for devices

[Paul Howarth]

thomas wrote:
> Dear All
> If I have added a hot pluggable SCSI or IDE HDD in my linux machine,
> how I can force my machine to scan scsi buses and/or ide buses to
> recignize the newly connected device and creat its device name in
> corresponding directory.  I know running kudzu is of no use.

Try here:
http://bash.cyberciti.biz/diskadmin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh.php

Paul.