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Date:      Tue, 06 May 2003 11:23:00 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gbde failure attaching /dev/fd0 
Message-ID:  <52625.1052212980@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 2003 10:18:39 BST." <3EB77DEF.3050407@algroup.co.uk> 

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In message <3EB77DEF.3050407@algroup.co.uk>, Ben Laurie writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <200305060048.16181.cbiffle@safety.net>, "Cliff L. Biffle" writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>gbde: Attach to fd0 failed: Provider needed
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, I have not yet released the adaptation class which allows you
>> to attach floppies and zip drives to the GEOM mesh, I'm having a hard
>> time finding a suitable way to deal with their "come and go" ability.
>
>This is the same problem I mentioned to you with USB memory devices -
>but those work - if I recall your advice was to not remove it before I
>unmounted it :-)

USB is somewhat different because it uses cam/scsi_da but there are
also issues related to removable devices there which I havn't solved.

There's a subtle difference between the case where the drive is
removable, like USB, and where the drive remains but the media is
removable, like Zip drives, and I need to cope with that.

>Incidentally, while we're on the subject, its not possible to automount
>USB devices, it seems, coz the appropriate device isn't fed through
>devd.conf.

That one is out of my range for now.

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