SCSI hotpluggable problems

[Jason Gray]

Thanks Ed.  I'll take a look.

Cheers,

Jason

Ed Greshko wrote:

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> Jason Gray wrote:
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>> I found out how to do this so you don't need to post a reply...
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>> echo "scsi add-single-device 0 1 2 3" > /proc/scsi/scsi
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>> with 0 1 2 3 being:
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>> Host / Channel / Target ID / LUN
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>
> OK....but since I did the research I don't want it to "go to waste"....
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> Try using scsiadd from....
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> http://freshmeat.net/projects/scsiadd/homepage/
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>
> Regards,
> Ed
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jason
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>> Jason Gray wrote:
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>>> 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
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