thomas wrote:
Dear All If I have added a hot pluggable SCSI or IDE HDD in my linux machine, how I can force my machine to scan scsi buses and/or ide buses to recignize the newly connected device and creat its device name in corresponding directory. I know running kudzu is of no use.
Try here: http://bash.cyberciti.biz/diskadmin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh.php Paul.