In message <20030115153610.79fe2349.ggm@apnic.net>, George Michaelson writes:
>Is there some 'trick' to make a USB device be recognized without reboot on the
>SCSI binding? Is this because a scsi emulation layer or the scsibus0 isn't
>initialized in the kernel unless its got an attached device at boot time? 

Do you have a USB hub you can try this with?  I have a hub which only
initializes devices which are plugged in already when I plug the hub in.  It
also has other behavioral quirks... This has been going on for some time for
me, in -current.

-s