adding scsi drive to running system

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 10:53 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Tom Wilson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't have any real experience with Linux and scsi so I need so
> > assistance.
> >
> > I have a IBM xseries 220 running Libranet 2.8.1.  It is a proxy server
> > running Squid.  Currently it has 1 18gig scsi drive in it.  I have a
> > 36gig hot swap drive that I want to add to the system so I have plenty
> > of room for the cache to grow.
> >
> > What is involved in adding the drive?  Can I just stick it in and go?
> >
> > I don't need it mirrored or raid or anything like that.  I just want to
> > add the drive format it, and move the /var partition to it.
>
> In theory that should work, although i've not used any IBM 220s.  Worst
> case is that you'd have to reboot the box for the additional drive to
> become usable.  Just look at dmesg when you insert the new drive, and see
> if its recognized by the OS.


On my SuSE system I have:

/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh


which will do a scan of the scsi bus if the drive isn't recognized.

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