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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:17:43 +0200
From:      Stefan Walter <sw@gegenunendlich.de>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media
Message-ID:  <20030411131743.GA770@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void>
In-Reply-To: <5868.1050045659@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20030411071226.GA910@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void> <5868.1050045659@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp, 11.04.03, 09:20h CEST:

> >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:
> 
> I just received five minutes ago a SCSI zip drive (Thank you!) so
> I can work on this issue.

Automatic discovery of the medium/new slices would be fine. I'd be
willing to test patches (against -RELEASE, though; I don't follow
-CURRENT on this machine).

> For now you may be able to force a rexamination by:
> 	true > /dev/da1

Thanks.

Stefan



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