From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 2 04:00:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C09016A421 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from root.org (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F9613C457 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: (qmail 47598 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2007 04:00:57 -0000 Received: from ppp-71-139-42-13.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO ?10.0.5.18?) (nate-mail@71.139.42.13) by root.org with ESMTPA; 2 Jul 2007 04:00:57 -0000 Message-ID: <4688786F.5080408@root.org> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:00:47 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070617) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <46880400.70808@root.org> <20070701.215404.1670806422.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070701.215404.1670806422.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GEOM weirdness with SD flash reader? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:00:55 -0000 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <46880400.70808@root.org> > Nate Lawson writes: > : Simply trying to mount a FAT filesystem in an external USB SD flash > : reader. The reader works fine, no errors in dmesg. > : > : deenlo# fdisk da2 > : ******* Working on device /dev/da2 ******* > : parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > : cylinders=982 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) > : > : parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > : cylinders=982 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) > : > : Media sector size is 512 > : Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > : Information from DOS bootblock is: > : The data for partition 1 is: > : sysid 6 (0x06),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB)) > : start 243, size 2011917 (982 Meg), flag 0 > : beg: cyl 0/ head 3/ sector 55; > : end: cyl 998/ head 3/ sector 3 > : The data for partition 2 is: > : > : The data for partition 3 is: > : > : The data for partition 4 is: > : > : deenlo# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/dos > : mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: No such file or directory > : deenlo# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da2 /mnt/dos > : mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2: Invalid argument > : deenlo# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/dos > : [success] > : > : So I'm guessing GEOM had to decide to create /dev/da2s1 after I tried to > : mount /dev/da2 directly? Nothing else would create the da2s1 device. > : Once the device was created with make_dev(), repeated unmounts/mounts > : work fine. > > The reading of the device is taking a while, no? I've seen > significant lags between when the flash reader is inserted, and the > device is ready and the tasting process finishes. Reseating > everything often fixes the problem. Nope, dmarck is right. The reader was inserted "empty", then the media was added. It took a write to the device (maybe via the mount attempt of /dev/da2) to trigger a re-taste. -- Nate