Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:10:10 GMT From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/165318: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable" Message-ID: <201204221610.q3MGAAiQ046703@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/165318; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> To: Mel Flynn <rflynn@acsalaska.net> Cc: mezz@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/165318: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable" Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:03:50 -0500 On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mel Flynn <rflynn@acsalaska.net> wrote: > On 3/17/2012 18:43, mezz@FreeBSD.org wrote: >> Synopsis: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable" >> >> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >> State-Changed-By: mezz >> State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 17 17:43:16 UTC 2012 >> State-Changed-Why: >> Have you follow this yet?: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3 > > Yes. HalFaq was followed on installation of the desktop and at that time > the disk was correctly identified as removable. > > Now, when we try to mount the disk the policykit error refers to > mount-fixed permission, not mount-removable. The users have > mount-removable permissions (and now mount-fixed as a work around). > The lshal output provided with the report, clearly shows that removable > is not set. I've done tracing in hald source to see where it gets it's > info from and it points to cam, but I'm unable to figure out how to get > that info from camcontrol(8). If you know a way how to do that, I'll add > it to the report. Read in the manpage and the 'camcontrol inquiry <device>' will show you if it's removable. # camcontrol inquiry cd0 pass2: <TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653F DW10> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device pass2: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes) Cheers, Mezz > -- > Mel -- mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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