From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 29 05:05:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05461065679; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171598FC08; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8T55AlC085018 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:35:11 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mike Tancsa Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:35:07 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200909280009.28658.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1254062842.2048.1467.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <200909280052.n8S0qCpL032199@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200909280052.n8S0qCpL032199@lava.sentex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8094239.usVn4f0L3n"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909291435.08797.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Robert Noland Subject: Re: Excessivly cheap USB device issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:05:13 -0000 --nextPart8094239.usVn4f0L3n Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >I also have a similar device, which I've been messing with a bit the > >last couple of days. In your case, it isn't seeing the media, just > > the "drive". I've had to try various combinations of unplugging > > the adapter from usb, inserting the media then plugging it back in. > > It does seem to work fairly reliably if you boot with the media > > already inserted, but it doesn't seem to detect media change at > > all. > > I get around it (on my cheap reader) by always doing a > cat /dev/null > /dev/da1 > whever I change or insert new media into the reader > > That seems to work with the gear I have 99% of the time. Hmm OK, I sort of expected fdisk da1 to fail straightaway though (it=20 takes ~30 seconds to fail for me). I have unplugged it for now, it interacts annoyingly with SANE because=20 that scans the SCSI bus(es) looking for scanner and each umass takes=20 30+ seconds to fail. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart8094239.usVn4f0L3n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKwZWE5ZPcIHs/zowRAnm7AJ46jYQ3DqXmTQ/MVVm71QyHpAYZpgCcCbDH aRqP9IkHtH2SyxcKivKfP54= =NfMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8094239.usVn4f0L3n--