Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:28:28 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ? Message-ID: <424830AC.7090309@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <34230.1112027190@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <42481C66.7090409@samsco.org>, Scott writes: > > >>So are you saying that an async notification mechanism needs to be >>invented for SCSI, or that all SCSI users should be required to use >>SES or SAFTE enclosures for all SCSI devices, or that we should be like >>Windows and constantly poll the devices? > > > I don't care _how_ we make CAM/SCSI behave like the users expect. > Well, I waved my hands at it for a few minutes, but nothing changed... hmm.... =-) My question to you was partially rhetorical, since a good solution just doesn't exist. Even the polling option isn't good because it will disrupt things like burning CD's; in Windows, the CD burning software packages that are out there go through an impressive set of hoops to deal with this polling problem. Scotthome | help
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