Re: SUMMARY: Installing new devices - mandatory to reboot?

From: Thomas R. Kimpton (tom@dtint.uucp)
Date: Tue Aug 10 1993 - 18:34:19 CDT


In article <1993Aug10.084403.16432@iti.gov.sg> jameslow@iti.gov.sg (James Low (RC)) writes:
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>From john@cs.wmich.edu Wed Aug 4 03:53:02 1993
>
>Assuming by "hard disk" you mean SCSI disks, you can run the following script
>as root:
>
>---------------- cut here -----------------
>#!/bin/sh
>#
># add-disk
>#
># Runs the commands to make Solaris locate a new disk that
># has been plugged in after the system was booted.
>#
>
>_DVFS_RECONFIG=YES; export _DVFS_RECONFIG
>
>/etc/init.d/drvconfig
>/etc/init.d/devlinks
>
>exit 0
>---------------- cut here -----------------
>
>This will only work if you already have at least one SCSI disk loaded in,
>because the SCSI parts of the kernel have to be loaded. I use this on a
>semi-regular basis, and it's worked for me. If you look at the stuff in
>/etc/init.d, that's all the "/reconfigure" does anyway.
>
>--Dave
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>--
> James Low Teck Koon
> Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, S'pore
> Email: jameslow@iti.gov.sg jameslow@itivax.bitnet
> Phone: (65) 7720438 Fax: (65) 7795966

Running

        modinfo

will tell you what loadable modules are currently loaded. If the
'sd' driver is not loaded, running

        modload -p drv/sd

will load that driver into the kernel.

Tom.

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