From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 13:58:15 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 125BB16A41A for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:58:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E456013C46A for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:58:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-71-72-80-132.columbus.res.rr.com [71.72.80.132]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l7VEFt9H087225 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:16:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from amistry@am-productions.biz) From: Anish Mistry Organization: AM Productions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:40:00 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200708311254.47654.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: <200708311254.47654.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3046530.6VAEkBGfDX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200708310940.18231.amistry@am-productions.biz> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/4083/Mon Aug 27 19:41:39 2007 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Peter Schuller Subject: Re: 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 13:58:15 -0000 --nextPart3046530.6VAEkBGfDX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 31 August 2007, Peter Schuller wrote: > 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? cat /dev/null > /dev/da0 That should retaste the device. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart3046530.6VAEkBGfDX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBG2BpCxqA5ziudZT0RAnPpAJ4xCCWsDuiyxvCEFe1Orms95EbYZQCeP8M3 wQ1lfqNxkF1dQM3BrEBaLZs= =mOWP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3046530.6VAEkBGfDX--