Steve Revilak wrote:
> 
> The fan in my DAT drive is a little noisy, therefore I tend to
> leave it powered off, turning it on only when I plan on doing
> backups.  Bootingwithout it turned on, it's obviously not seen by
> the kernel.
> 
> However, if I realize later on that I really *do* need to use it, I'll
> end up with
> 
> command-name: /dev/rst0: Device Not Configured 
> 
> After which point, the only way I've been able to have the tape drive
> 'seen' is to reboot the machine.  (This also holds true with any other
> SCSI device, including ones listed in /etc/fstab.  Ex.- having a 
> CD-ROM powered off at boot.  Trying to mount a disk later on using
> 'mount -A' also produces the 'Device Not Configured' error.)
> 
> In a nutshell, how does one rescan the SCSI bus for devices that that
> might have been powered off during boottime?  Most of the man entries
> involving 'devices' lie in the porgramming reference section of the man
> pages.

Currently, one doesn't.  The only way to reconfig a device is to reboot
the machine.

Sorry.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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