Re: SCSI peripherals?
Rafael Cordones Marcos <rafacm@bcnartdirecte.com> writes:
| On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 02:53:33PM -0400, timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:
| > I have an external SCSI zip drive & scanner. However, it seems that
| > when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, they don't get
| > recognized. Is there any way I can get it to read them after boot time? Or do I
| > have to leave them on permanently / reboot every time I want to use them?
| >
|
| Hey! This happens to me too. I used to have the scsi support as a module and
| when doing insmod it detected the scanner but since I compiled scsi support
| directly into the kernel I have to have the scanner on at boot time or reboot
| to use it. Anybody know why?
Yeah, because it only scans the SCSI bus once, when the SCSI driver is
loaded. If the driver is a module then it scans the SCSI bus each time
that module is loaded. If the SCSI drive is compiled into the kernel
the only time the driver is loaded is at boot time and so if your
device isn't on at boot time it doesn't get scanned.
See my first reply to Tim for details on how to, possibly, get around
this.
Gary
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