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To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
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Subject: Re: retasting devices on demand 
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In message <44EB5CE4.5080008@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:

>> The easy way is to open the device for write and close it again:
>> 
>> 	true > /dev/da0
>> 
>> would do it.
>
>Yep, that did it.  I think I tried touch (or maybe something else) 
>before and it didn't tickle it, so I moved on.
>
>Might be more intuitive for admins to use a retaste command with the 
>given tool or geom command line.  Is that function left out for a 
>reason, or just hasn't been implemented yet?

The problem is that it won't work if part of the disk is already
open...

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