Re: Detecting SCSI tape drive after boot

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• Subject: Re: Detecting SCSI tape drive after boot
• From: Garry Harthill <gazzerh@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:26:35 +0000
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On 04/01/06, Garry Harthill <gazzerh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tape drive is plugged in but was turned off during boot. It is now
> turned on. How can I probe the SCSI bus to add the tape drive device
> without rebooting the system?
>
> This machine is heavily used and a reboot would have to be a last option.
>
> Thanks,
> Garry
>

I sorted it. Found a nice rescan-scsi-bus.sh script to do this after
some extensive googling :)

Garry

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