adding scsi drive to running system

[Tom Wilson]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:17, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 10:53 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Tom Wilson wrote:
[snips of my problem]
> >
> > 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.

Thanks to all for the input.  I plugged it in and had to download the
above mentioned script and run it but it was recognized after the script
ran.  

Tomorrow I will partition, format and hopefully flawlessly move the /var
partition to the new drive.  After I sleep in for a bit from doing month
end tonight.  Ugggh.

 
Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x4433
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