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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
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