On 2/26/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/25/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i > > hot-plugged a scsi drive into the machine after it was already > > running? how can i re-detect the hardware? > > If you are using udev, and have configured the kernel for hotplug > support, this should not be necessary. The kernel will generate the > appropriate hotplug events, and udev will create the device nodes. > > > > > also, what if it detects a drive as sda, and i want it to be sdb? is > > there a way i can tell it what i want to be sda, sda etc? without > > actually having to move the drives around? > > Write udev rules to create persistent device names. > > An example: > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]2", SYSFS{serial}=="300000005AF6", > SYMLINK="%k", NAME="backups%e" > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > its actually running a 2.4 kernel on sparc, and i dont think they use udev, i think they are still on devfs. IIRC. is udev the only way to accomplish this?
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