From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 02:57:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80F816A403 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:57:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0533443D46 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:57:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.24] (andersonbox4.centtech.com [192.168.42.24]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k8L2uwFv087570; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:56:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4511FF85.1000102@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:57:09 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060802) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John-Mark Gurney References: <200609191005.17015.mldodson@houston.rr.com> <200609201414.22322.mldodson@houston.rr.com> <20060920194236.GJ23915@funkthat.com> <200609201516.26497.mldodson@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200609201516.26497.mldodson@houston.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1914/Wed Sep 20 14:24:45 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org, mldodson@houston.rr.com Subject: Re: devfs and hot unplugging firewire device X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:57:01 -0000 On 09/20/06 15:16, M. L. Dodson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 14:42, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> M. L. Dodson wrote this message on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 14:14 -0500: >>> More experimental results on firewire disks and hot unplugging: >>> >>> Transcripts of two sessions can be retrieved from >>> http://siegfried.utmb.edu/bdodson/firewire.on.histidine.txt and >>> http://siegfried.utmb.edu/bdodson/firewire.on.serine.txt >> doh, I think I know what your problem is... you need to do three >> or so fwcontrol -r's before the device will disappear... This is >> necessary, since each plug causes a rescan, and you don't want devices >> disappearing when you add your cd drive... It looks like adding a >> timeout would be a good thing to the device orphan... If the device >> has been orphaned for more than a minute, drop it, or three or so >> resets... >> > > That worked. Thanks again! > Bud Dodson > It's too bad firewire doesn't act more like USB storage in this case - you can yank and plug in the same or similar storage using the same adapter many many times without issue - I've done this many times. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------