Re: reinitializing a crashed SCSI CD-ROM drive without rebooting?
On Thursday 12 September 2002 13:26, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> so is there a way to let the CD-ROM drive reinitialize hard without
> stopping the machine?
> the SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2940
IIRC, we had something similar on this list some time ago. Have a look
at the "Resetting SCSI CD-RW burner" thread (started 2002-08-13). In
this thread, Edward Guldenmond wrote that cdrdao had such
functionality.
Otherwise, AS A LAST RESORT AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY you might try
unplugging the drive from the power supply. This could theoretically
reset the drive and you could perhaps get it back with
rescan-scsi-bus.sh from the scsitools package if it isn't available
after plugging back in. The danger here is that it might just fry your
SCSI bus or crash your system, but normally the devices are rather
robust in that regard.
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