SCSI hotpluggable problems

[Ed Greshko]

Jason Gray wrote:
> 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

OK....but since I did the research I don't want it to "go to waste"....

Try using scsiadd from....

http://freshmeat.net/projects/scsiadd/homepage/


Regards,
Ed

> 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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