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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why does hal think my USB devices are fixed?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910141240130.73916@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1255542419.22880.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910141055410.73454@wonkity.com> <1255542419.22880.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:04 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>> Fixed as opposed to removable.  hal used to see these USB
>> devices--USB memory sticks, memory cards in a reader--as removable
>> devices.  Which they are.
>>
>> Same computer, same config that used to automount these devices as
>> removable, but now FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and hal says they are fixed devices:
>>
>> org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed no <-- (action, result).
>>
>> Is this due to the USB system?
>
> I have stopped development of hal-0.5.11.  I have put a lot of work into
> the upcoming 0.5.13 release to fix numerous issues with USB detection.
> I have been getting good results on -CURRENT with various USB sticks.
> You may want to give that a try.  You can get the port from the ports
> module at http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi .

That's a definite improvement.  USB sticks work fine, or at least the 
three I have here work fine.  The memory card reader still comes up as 
fixed.  This is a Sandisk SDDRX3-3in1 with multiple slots.  da0 and da1 
always come up, along with the s1 slice of whichever memory card is 
loaded.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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