From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 00:12:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB7737B401 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C37043F85 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:12:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sw@gegenunendlich.de) Received: from [212.227.126.205] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 193si7-0000re-00; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:12:31 +0200 Received: from [80.142.200.57] (helo=kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 193si7-0000aU-00; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:12:31 +0200 Received: by kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9DA4B883C; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:12:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:12:26 +0200 From: Stefan Walter To: Doug White Message-ID: <20030411071226.GA910@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void> References: <20030410162522.GA917@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void> <20030410170931.S90458@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030410170931.S90458@carver.gumbysoft.com> Organization: Infinity Approximation Task Force X-PGP-key: http://www.gegenunendlich.de/swalter-rsa.asc X-PGP-fingerprint: 85D8 6A49 22C7 6CD9 B011 5D6A 5691 111B 12B9 E0B3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:12:34 -0000 Doug White, 11.04.03, 02:09h CEST: > > 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? 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: stefan@kyuzo> ls /dev/da1* crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 14 Apr 11 08:51 /dev/da1 stefan@kyuzo> mdir y: Can't open /dev/da1s4: No such file or directory Cannot initialize 'Y:' stefan@kyuzo> sudo touch /dev/da1s4 Password: touch: /dev/da1s4: Operation not supported Maybe I'm missing something obvious. If that's the case, a hint would be nice. Stefan