Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ?

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.current,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, Bernd Walter writes:
>On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:13:16PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <[email protected]>, 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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