From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 20:05:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F411016A4CE; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE00C43D4C; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3535JQ9098443; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:35:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:35:18 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <5BBC9984-86A5-11D8-8786-000A95DBB47C@ca.com> In-Reply-To: <5BBC9984-86A5-11D8-8786-000A95DBB47C@ca.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404051235.18731.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sa(4): removing device entry X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 03:05:30 -0000 On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:32, Lachlan O'Dea wrote: > Any ideas as to what the problem could be? After this happens, all *sa* > devices disappear from /dev. Is there any way to recreate them, other > than rebooting? If I eject the tape and insert a new one, the drive > appears to load the tape normally, but I have no device entry to talk > to it. I don't know what the actual cause is - it appears there is a genuine error which might need to be addressed. That said, you can get FreeBSD to rescan the bus with 'camcontrol rescan 0' and it should recreate the node. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5