Re: Bug#312699: Please have hotplug rescan the scsi bus for scsi loads.
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:14:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> reassign 312699 kernel
> thanks
>
> On Jun 09, "Michael Heldebrant Ph.D" <michaelheldebrant@stonepath.com> wrote:
>
> > For a Dell Latitude X200 laptop and docking station is is necessary to
> > manually run scsiadd -s to enable the cdrom drive through the firewire
> > interface. Is there a way to intelligently rescan the scsi bus when
> > potential scsi devices may enter and leave the system or should I look
> > into reporting a bug against the sbp2 kernel module?
> I'd start with the kernel. If the kernel people say that this cannot be
> fixed in the driver then you could write a script for
> /etc/hotplug.d/ieee1394/ .
> If you can make it run scsiadd only on this specific system then I could
> add it to the hotplug package.
This works just fine when you use a 2.6 kernel. With the 2.4 kernel
even the manual scan is extremly dangerous.
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