From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 13:17:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E3E16A417 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:17:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from proxy3.bredband.net (proxy3.bredband.net [195.54.101.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F5A13C4E5 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:17:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from prometheus.scode.org (85.229.22.84) by proxy3.bredband.net (7.3.127) id 46D6D3D30004B8D3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:54:33 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prometheus.scode.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D09A1CC7B for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:54:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Schuller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:54:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708311254.47654.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Subject: Forcing GEOM to re-taste a device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:17:16 -0000 I am having trouble with a USB stick (a Verbatim store'n'go, 4 GB). It seems there is a timing problem. On insertion there are complaints that there is no medium present when attempting to discover the size of the device. It goes on to retry but eventually bails out. However sometimes (only once so far) it manages to successfully retry and discover slices; presumably due to timing. So I would like to force GEOM to re-taste the media ("camcontrol rescand da0" is not enough). Is there a way to do this? And further, I was hoping to boot off of this. If anyone have suggestions as to how to make the retries continue for a longer period (other than patching the source), it would be welcome, since during boot I need the kernel to be able to taste it on the initial attempt, since failure will cause a panic immediately. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org