Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:35:18 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sa(4): removing device entry Message-ID: <200404051235.18731.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5BBC9984-86A5-11D8-8786-000A95DBB47C@ca.com> References: <5BBC9984-86A5-11D8-8786-000A95DBB47C@ca.com>
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:32, Lachlan O'Dea wrote: > Any ideas as to what the problem could be? After this happens, all *sa* > devices disappear from /dev. Is there any way to recreate them, other > than rebooting? If I eject the tape and insert a new one, the drive > appears to load the tape normally, but I have no device entry to talk > to it. I don't know what the actual cause is - it appears there is a genuine error which might need to be addressed. That said, you can get FreeBSD to rescan the bus with 'camcontrol rescan 0' and it should recreate the node. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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