New LUN available on Linux without reboot

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Thu, 4 May 2006, A Cline wrote:

> I have tried partprobe, but since this scans for "partitions" and I'm hoping
> to see a new "disk", I didn't give it much hope.  And I was rewarded,
> because it didn't work.
>
> Unloading the driver would mean I would drop any other mounts from the SAN.
> There has to be a better way.  I've tried the following, but it didn't work
> either:
>
> [root at low-san-903 data1]# cat
> /proc/scsi/scsi                                   Attached devices:
> Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: ATA      Model: ST380013AS       Rev: 8.12
> Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: DGC      Model: RAID 5           Rev: 0219
> Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01
> Vendor: DGC      Model: RAID 5           Rev: 0219
> Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 02
> Vendor: DGC      Model: RAID 5           Rev: 0219
> Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> [root at low-san-903 data1]# echo "scsi add-single-device 3 0 0 3" >
> /proc/scsi/scsi
>
> Any other thoughts?

With Qlogic HBAs you need to

# echo "scsi-qlascan" >>/proc/scsi/qla2xxx/3

before you say

# echo "scsi add-single-device 3 0 0 3" >>/proc/scsi/scsi

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)