Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 00:14, "Nick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices': > > > 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 sd

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/25/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? Well, for hotplug, I'm not sure. It has been too long since I ran a 2.4 kernel. Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 February 2006 23:51, "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices': > On 2/25/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i > >

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Nick Smith
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 u

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Fish
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,

[gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Nick Smith
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? 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? with