SCSI Problem

Drew Lane yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Dec 4 07:50:03 2002


>
> Definitely slow if it's the original 1GB Fireball.  They were slow 
> even back when they were new.  :)  However, I can't say that I've ever 
> heard of one failing to show up in Linux before, and I don't recall 
> such problems back when I was using a PowerMac 7500 with what was 
> probably the same drive you've got.  Of course, that was back in the 
> early days of the PowerMac port of Linux and the drivers have changed 
> quite a bit since then...  for example, if the drivers now have a 
> shorter timeout when scanning for devices, that could create problems 
> for a slow-to-respond drive. 

I would like to test this timeout theory by rescanning the SCSI bus
after I boot into Linux.

Is there a command to do this?

Drew