Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:57:12 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CF card and /dev filesystem entries Message-ID: <20051116165712.GB33710@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051116101200.GA2823@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20051116101200.GA2823@uk.tiscali.com>
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--/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:12:00AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > Running FreeBSD 6.0 here. >=20 > I have a USB-attached floppy/CF/SD combo reader. On powerup it is detected > and I get /dev/da0 as the CF slot: >=20 > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <OEI-USB CompactFlash 2.0> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device=20 > da0: 1.000MB/s transfers > da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present > da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 > da1: <OEI-USB SM/MS/SD 2.0> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device=20 > da1: 1.000MB/s transfers > da1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present >=20 > However, when I insert a CF card with normal partioning I need /dev/da0s1, > and this is not present in the /dev filesystem because the partition table > has not been read. <snip> > The only way I can see to *force* the superblock to be read is to attempt= to > mount the whole device as if it were unpartitioned. This is sufficient to > cause the /dev/da0s1 entry to appear in the /dev filesystem. <snip> > At this point, everything works as expected. >=20 > My question is: is there an easier or more direct way to cause the partit= ion > table of the CF card to be read and the /dev filesystem to update? Try 'camcontrol rescan all' (as root). Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDe2ToEnfvsMMhpyURAsiaAJ4qbiwLpWFI2BJtm7mylpxHD2eKAwCfSeZz OmE9YqdlQ4gDi1MxfVXZCaM= =HIqv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4--
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