SCSI hotpluggable problems

[Jason Gray]

I found out how to do this so you don't need to post a reply...

echo "scsi add-single-device 0 1 2 3" > /proc/scsi/scsi

with 0 1 2 3 being:

Host / Channel / Target ID / LUN

Cheers,

Jason

Jason Gray wrote:

> Hello...
>
> I've recently installed a iSCSI card from adaptec (asa7211c) and 
> everything works great except when I add new volumes to the system.  
> Each volume that is exposed on our iSCSI portal is presented to the 
> iSCSI initiator (Server) as a SCSI device (i.e. /dev/sda).  However, 
> the kernel needs to be rebooted everytime I add a new SCSI device.  
> I'm trying to get the system to recongnize the new device without 
> having to reboot.  Is there a way of doing this?  I thought that the 
> hotplug script would work but it seems to only work with hosts (i.e. 
> HBA).  Is this a limitation of Linux?  It would be similar to adding a 
> new SCSI drive to a system using hotpluggable support.
>
> Sys Configs:
>
> Linux BDrender 2.4.26 #1 SMP Tue Oct 26 14:06:30 PDT 2004 i686 i686 
> i386 GNU/Linux
> Redhat 9.0
>
> modules:
>
> scsimon                11364   0
> autofs                 13844   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> e100                   59460   1
> e1000                  76000   1
> asa72xx                46884   9
> keybdev                 3136   0  (unused)
> mousedev                5688   0  (unused)
> input                   6144   0  [keybdev mousedev]
> ext3                   74468  11
> jbd                    56688  11  [ext3]
> raid1                  16012   4
> lvm-mod                62784  27
> aic7xxx               203216   0
> sd_mod                 13356  18
> scsi_mod              112952   4  [scsimon asa72xx aic7xxx sd_mod]
>
>

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Jason Gray
Bardel Entertainment Inc.
604-669-5589
jgray at bardel.ca