Areca Disk Adapter Question

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Sun Dec 6 02:07:47 UTC 2009


On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:43:35PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
> To those who might have more experience with these boards than I do - is
> there a way to have them re-read the bus and export anything new (or
> remove anything  "not new") from the driver configuration?
> 
> I can't figure out a way to do it as of yet - the 3Ware drivers
> automatically export new units without a reboot, but it appears the
> system has to be downed and reset for configuration changes to show
> "through" to FreeBSD on the Areca drivers.

This is probably a stupid question, but -- doesn't camcontrol(8) handle
this?  arcmsr(4) does rely on scbus(4) and CAM, so "camcontrol rescan"
or "camcontrol reset" would be my first guesses.

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