Les Mikesell wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>   
>> Next time I do a swap, I'll bring the system back up with 2 drives and
>> then try to hot-add the third and watch dmesg.  If I see the drive
>> detected, what do I need to do to get udev to create the device file
>> (CentOS 4)?
>>     
>
> I'm not sure about Centos4, but I think it should work.  With Centos 5, 
> it automatically adds the next-available scsi device name and detects 
> the partitions.  And it releases those names when you physically remove 
> the drive.
>   

I tried it this time and no such luck.  dmesg shows nothing at all when
I insert the drive and the device file is not created.  I think I'm
stuck with restarting to recognize the new drive each time.

-- 
Bowie

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