Subject: Re: Polling SCSI bus
From: Charlie Watts (cewatts@frontier.net)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 13:12:19 MST
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Charlie Watts wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Nathan A. McQuillen wrote:
>
> > Right. I've been doing it for years and years, even (cover your eyes!! the
> > horror!!) using a DB-25 switchbox (unmount drives on Machine 1, switch
> > chain via box to machine 2, run Drive Setup, command-M, drives pop up all
> > happy -- blasphemy i know but having dealt with replacing a few HDI SCSI
> > ports on Powerbooks I'd rather do just about anything that doesn't
> > repeatedly stress the ports). Anyway, I don't want to do anything that
> > heinous here, just want to be able to load data onto a drive I'm
> > eventually going to be using with a Debian install on a Powerbook 170
> > (only 6MB of RAM, so I have to work without a boot ramdisk) and disconnect
> > and reconnect the drive a few times without having to take my whole system
> > down.
> >
> > Might it work to compile a kernel with only module scsi support, then
> > unload and reload the module to rescan?
>
> My precise wonderment, as well ...
>
> I bet it -doesn't-, because I think the devices are enumerated at -boot-
> time. Particularly in open firmware.
>
> Wait a minute, a PB170 won't be able to run Debian anyway, will it? That's
> on 030/040 ... I don't think anything will work on that.
Or maybe I'm wrong. Check this page out:
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/
(search for rescan)
But still ... hard to say what the Mac will do. I bet it matters what SCSI
controller you have.
-- Charlie Watts cewatts@frontier.net Frontier Internet http://www.frontier.net/
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