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Date:      Sat, 30 May 2009 10:25:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB (internally fixed) card reader questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0905301017510.22838@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0905301010010.22838@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <4A20F485.2030803@omnilan.de> <200905301203.20769.hselasky@c2i.net> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0905300950190.22838@sea.ntplx.net> <200905301610.45520.hselasky@c2i.net> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0905301010010.22838@sea.ntplx.net>

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On Sat, 30 May 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Sat, 30 May 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 30 May 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>> On Sat, 30 May 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> 
>>> It is not just USB flash cards.  I have similar problem with
>>> external USB disk drives.  See earlier (unanswered) posting:
>>>
>>>    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-May/006964.html
>>> 
>>> And usbconfig(8) could be a little more helpful (the commands
>>> could use a description for what they do).
>> 
>> I'm not sure who is at fault, USB or hald. It looks to me like hald does 
>> not
>> detect that the flash card is plugged in during startup, and does not mount
>> it.
>
> Is hald needed for this?  I am not currently running X because
> it doesn't work any longer with my Intel 945GM chipset.
>
> I will try removing hald from the equation.

Hmm, how about that!  Removing hald (and dbus) solved the
problem.  I can attach and detach the external drive without
any problems.

I did have to add a quirk for the device (I'll send you
a diff privately for review).

-- 
DE



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