Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:12:26 +0200 From: Stefan Walter <sw@gegenunendlich.de> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media Message-ID: <20030411071226.GA910@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void> In-Reply-To: <20030410170931.S90458@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20030410162522.GA917@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void> <20030410170931.S90458@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White, 11.04.03, 02:09h CEST: > > is there a way to make devfs rescan the partition table of a device? > > Currently (i.e. 5.0-RELEASE with me), I cannot access ZIP disks if there > > wasn't any medium in the ZIP drive at boot time, as devfs doesn't create > > the device files for the slices (which is understandable, as there > > weren't any slice then). "camcontrol rescan" (it's a SCSI device) > > apparently just scans for devices and doesn't help with creating the > > slices' device files. > > don't they just auto-clone themselves? How? The device files are and remain missing, no matter what I do. In my case, /dev/da1s4 (for DOS/Windows formatted media) is missing if there wasn't any ZIP disk in the drive at boot time: stefan@kyuzo> ls /dev/da1* crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 14 Apr 11 08:51 /dev/da1 stefan@kyuzo> mdir y: Can't open /dev/da1s4: No such file or directory Cannot initialize 'Y:' stefan@kyuzo> sudo touch /dev/da1s4 Password: touch: /dev/da1s4: Operation not supported Maybe I'm missing something obvious. If that's the case, a hint would be nice. Stefan
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