Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:41:44 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: media changes and umass flash card readers Message-ID: <200906091841.45108.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <20090609103029.70a488a9@vixen42> References: <20090609103029.70a488a9@vixen42>
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On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:30:29 Zane C.B. wrote: > This machine here has a USB flash card reader integrated into it. It > works with out issue, minus re-reading the partition and slice info > upon disk change. Is there any way to actually force it to re-read > that information? > > Currently the only thing I've come across that works is to either > power cycle the machine or try mounting something on that device, > which will fail even if the specified partition does actually exist. > After it fails I will see the proper dev entries for it and will work > the second time. In 8-current you can use the usbconfig utility to re-enumerate the device. Else "cat /dev/null > /dev/daX" usually does the trick. Note /dev/null is not /dev/zero ! --HPS
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