Re: counting scsi hosts

Jim Crilly wrote: More stuff is configurable without a recompile. If I add/change hardware I don't have to do anything unless it's something required for booting and even then updating my initrd is simple. And I have run into cases where reloading modules will fix things, Ok, that are

Re: counting scsi hosts

Jim Crilly wrote: anything by compiling them in statically. I'm looking at it from the other direction, with initrd so easy to create, what's the advantage of not using modules? Ok, maybe it's just me thinking that I gain reliability whith some things compiled in and others not, in an

Re: counting scsi hosts

Jim Crilly wrote: There's no such module; I think SCSI support is compiled into the kernel. That would probably be a valid assumption. Yeah, I'd say I did that :) Well to even attempt reloading anything you need it as a module, infact I prefer to make everything possible a module and use

Re: counting scsi hosts

Jim Crilly wrote: Reloading a SCSI host driver (i.e. gdth, aic7xxx, etc) will increase the counter, reloading the SCSI core itself (scsi_mod) will reset the counter back to zero. There's no such module; I think SCSI support is compiled into the kernel. I would also have compiled the gdth

Re: counting scsi hosts

Jim Crilly wrote: It seems to be normal, but I'd probably still say it's a bug in the SCSI system. It is possible to reset the number by reloading the scsi_mod module, but you have to umount all of the SCSI filesystems to do that so it's not a great solution. Unloading the SCSI module is what

Re: counting scsi hosts

Goswin von Brederlow wrote: when unloading and reloading SCSI modules, the number of SCSI hosts is increased like this: Also happens on usb every time you unplug and replug a harddisk. Very anoying. Thanks! At last I'm still on the save side since it's normal. GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,