camcontrol cdb to disconnect drive

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Feb 4 08:33:15 PST 2005


In the last episode (Feb 04), Kevin A. Pieckiel said:
> I want to replace a 9 GB SCSI drive with an 18 GB SCSI drive.  All
> the hardware supports hot-swapping.  Just for kicks, I thought I'd
> try to turn the drive off via SCSI commands and replace it without
> rebooting.
> 
> The camcontrol utility doesn't have a disconnect command or a stop unit
> command (that I can find), so I was going to try to use 'camcontrol cdb'

$ camcontrol |& grep stop
camcontrol stop       [dev_id] [generic args]

Works for me.  There's also a 'start' command.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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