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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:33:38 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ? 
Message-ID:  <31970.1112016818@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:13:19 %2B0200." <20050328131318.GC14532@cicely12.cicely.de> 

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In message <20050328131318.GC14532@cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:
>On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:13:16PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20050328114633.GZ14532@cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:
>> 
>> >> camcontrol detach da0; camcontrol rescan all 
>> >> helps, but, it should be much better if it will be issued automatically.
>> >
>> >Yes - GEOM seems to ignore media change signals from drives.
>> >I've added PHK to the recipient list - maybe he has an idea about this
>> >problem.
>> 
>> No, GEOM doesn't ignore any such thing, because as far as I know
>> GEOM doesn't get any such thing to ignore in the first place.
>
>At least with (most) SCSI devices you get a media changed exception
>on the first access after that.

Yes, but sane people would argue that is one turn too late in the
game, whouldn' they ?

We should get an async event as soon as the media disappears.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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