Such hardware does exist. Perhaps this person has such hardware. We
do here.
Larry
>Path: noris.net!not-for-mail
>From: smurf@work.smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
>Newsgroups: dist.linux.kernel
>Date: 20 Jun 1997 20:18:42 +0200
>Organization: noris network GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG
>Lines: 20
>References: <F7409411BA@espoo.efore.fi> <866815353.17535@noris.de>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: work.smurf.noris.de
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
>Xref: noris.net dist.linux.kernel:5519
>Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>Precedence: bulk
>
>"Lauri Tischler" <ltischler@efore.fi> writes:
>> If I plug a new diskdrive into a scsicontroller on a live system, how=
>=20
>> do I get the drive to be identified (as /dev/sdx or such) without=20
>> rebooting the bloody box ?
>>=20
>You don't.
>
>Sooner or later, doing this _will_ fry your SCSI interface chips.
>
>Trust me -- I learned that the hard way. :-(
>
>--=20
>Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
> -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
>--=20
>Matthias Urlichs \ noris network GmbH / Xlink-POP N=FCrnberg=
>=20
>Schleiermacherstra=DFe 12 \ Linux+Internet / EMail: urlichs@nor=
>is.de
>90491 N=FCrnberg (Germany) \ Consulting+Programming+Networking+etc=
>'ing
> PGP: 1024/4F578875 1B 89 E2 1C 43 EA 80 44 15 D2 29 CF C6 C7 E0 D=
>E
> Click <A HREF=3D"http://info.noris.de/~smurf/finger">here</A>. =
> 42
>