On Feb 20, 12:10pm, Olaf Seibert wrote:
} But what if you have a scsi tape unit that's mostly turned off (because
} you don't need it very often) and so you reboot without the tape unit
} being turned on. With Linux you absolutely need to reboot before you
} can use your tape.
} 
} Could NetBSD do better? (Not only for scsi buses necessarily but on any
} bus that could potentially have devices that are not switched on at
} boot time)
} 
} I realise that the dynamic mapping of scsi targets to devices (st*
} at scsibus? target ? lun ? ) could not work, but a fixed mapping could.
} (Or am I being silly and it works already - I cannot try this myself).

  NetBSD already supports reprobing the SCSI bus(es).  I have an external
CDROM that I normally don't have turned on.  I write a simple program
to do a reprobe of the SCSI system so that I could connect the CDROM
without needing to reboot.  By default, the program will reprobe all
logical units on all targets on all SCSI adapters.  It will use /dev/rsd0c
as the SCSI device to open to do the ioctl.  It will take an argument
of the form "device[:bus[:target[:lun]]]" to specify a different
device and to limit the bus, target, or logical unit to reprobe.  I
do "scsireprobe sd1:1:0:1" with my Adaptec ACB400A MFF-SCSI adapter
to get the second disk configured (the ACB400A connects 2 MFM drives
and uses the logical unit to address the drives), since the initial
probe only gets the first logical unit it finds on each target.


------------------------  scsireprobe.c ------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <sys/scsiio.h>

int fd;

main (argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
	char *devname;
	char namebuf[128];
	char *np;
	struct scsi_addr zzz = {-1, -1, -1};

	if (argc > 1)
		devname = argv[1];
	else
		devname = "/dev/rsd0c";
	np = strchr (devname, ':');
	if (np) {
		*np++ = 0;
		zzz.scbus = atoi (np);
		np = strchr (np, ':');
		if (np) {
			zzz.target = atoi (++np);
			np = strchr (np, ':');
			if (np)
				zzz.lun = atoi (++np);
		}
	}
	if (*devname != '/') {
		sprintf (namebuf, "/dev/r%sc", devname);
		devname = namebuf;
	}
	fd = open (devname, O_RDONLY);
	if (fd < 0)
		perror("open");
	else {
		printf ("reprobing %s:%d:%d:%d\n", devname,
		    zzz.scbus, zzz.target, zzz.lun);
		if (ioctl (fd, SCIOCREPROBE, &zzz) < 0)
			perror("ioctl");
	}
	close (fd);
}
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Michael

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