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Date:      Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:19:01 -0500
From:      Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB Flash reader under RELENG_6: force GEOM rescan
Message-ID:  <5f67a8c40602100619v4ce3ab7fof3c0d45c51bd2a74@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200602101029.k1AAT2DA056950@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <20060209210748.L87003@woozle.rinet.ru> <200602101029.k1AAT2DA056950@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On 2/10/06, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:

Concerning the SCSI and CAM code I'm not an expert, but I
> think it should be possible to nudge devfs when a rescan
> has detected a new device.


You'd think, but no.  You see, the device , according to CAM, doesn't
change.  Magically, it has more blocks, but it's the "same" device to cam.
Atacontrol can remove a device, but camcontrol can't.  It seems it would be
sufficient to be able to have camcontrol force a rescan, but you can't.



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