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Subject: Re: USB Flash reader under RELENG_6: force GEOM rescan
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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.