Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:57:09 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org, mldodson@houston.rr.com Subject: Re: devfs and hot unplugging firewire device Message-ID: <4511FF85.1000102@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200609201516.26497.mldodson@houston.rr.com> References: <200609191005.17015.mldodson@houston.rr.com> <200609201414.22322.mldodson@houston.rr.com> <20060920194236.GJ23915@funkthat.com> <200609201516.26497.mldodson@houston.rr.com>
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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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