From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Merritt Subject: Inhibit auto-attach of scsi disks ? Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:18:19 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021001161819.36c43d89.Scsi@PragmaSoft.com> References: <20021001080115.A27028@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com> <200210011514.g91FEC703750@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200210011514.g91FEC703750@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > patmans@us.ibm.com said: > use of the block device (i.e. dd if=/dev/sda), and probably others. I've noticed (at least in LK 2.4.19) that the scsi system will automatically "attach" any scsi disk-type device that it finds while scanning the scsi bus for new devices. This includes issuing read capacity commands and attempting to read and parse that device's partition table. I was wondering if there has been any discussion of a method/option by which a user could inhibit the automatic attachment of disk units ? This might be desired if the users intent was to reformat, repartition, or perform other low-level activities. Thanks, Scott.