Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:27:30 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> Cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Ejecting" Firewire Drives Message-ID: <20080624202729.GJ3767@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <48612F18.4030401@miralink.com> References: <48612F18.4030401@miralink.com>
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Sean Bruno wrote this message on Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:30 -0700:
> What is the proper way to disconnect a Firewire Hard disk from a FreeBSD
> system?
To make FreeBSD really see that the disk disappeared, run fwcontrol -r
three times. The SBP driver does not disconnect a drive immediately
incase you plug it back in, but if it doesn't see the drive after a
few bus resets, it will finally be removed... See sbp(4) for more
information.
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