Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:09:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Stefan Walter <sw@gegenunendlich.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media Message-ID: <20030410170931.S90458@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20030410162522.GA917@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void> References: <20030410162522.GA917@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void>
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Stefan Walter wrote: > Hi, > > 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? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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