| Itjih Sjamsul Nursalim |
| TheLadders |
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When you hotplug a hard drive in a virtual machine, the drive do not show in fdisk -l output until you reboot your VM.
In order to get the drive to appear, the SCSI bus need to be rescanned.
The rescan will be triggered through sysfs pseudo filesystem.
First of all get root access and check what host is available:
# ls /sys/class/scsi_host
host0 host1 host2 host3
Pick up the one (here host2 is taken) that match where the drive is and run:
# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host2/scan
Now, you should be able to see the drive when running:
# fdisk -l
I just got a new SATA drive
I just got a new SATA drive after my maxtor crashed i had it for about 10 years and it was about time for it to die but thank god i found a data recovery company to help get my files off it. Not going back to SCSI or EIDE ever