Remove NO_HW devices from ioscan output

[Laszlo Csizmadia]

Is there any way but reboot to remove NO_HW lines from ioscan output?
Thoses devices are really not there any more(phisicaly removed) but I want the kernel and ioscan also reflect it. Obviously a reboot could solve this but I want to avoid if possible.

Thanks in advance.

[Pete Randall]

There may be some way to force it, but I suspect the only way is to reboot.


Pete

[T G Manikandan]

Only reboot will do it.

[T G Manikandan]

check this doc

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000065679876

[Steven E. Protter]

Has the device been physically removed from the box?

If its still there and plugged in its going to show up on ioscan even after a boot.

SEP

[Denver Osborn]

The closest you can get without a reboot is to use rmsf.

rmsf -k -H hw_path

This will remove a disk and it's entry from ioscan, however you will still see the target class listed as "NO_HW" until you bounce the box.


Hope this helps,
-denver

[MZ_1]

was looking for info and saw this. even though the thread is old, someone may one day read this and need it ...

ioscan -nfC disk|grep NO_HW|awk '{print $3}'|xargs -i -t rmsf -H {}

[Rick Garland]

Using the rmsf command will do it. Use this command with the -H option.

rmsf -H

If you have lots of NO_HW entries, make a for loop script that will automate for you.

[Francis_12]

Hello,

Unfortunately that's impossible : the io devices tree is built at boot time and NO_HW entries cannot be dynamically removed without rebooting the system.

Hope this helps,
Bye.

Francis.

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

use ioscan and find the Hardware address of the device which shows the NO_HW.Then use
#rmsf -H
to remove it.Try out this most of teh time this worked.
regards
SK