Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does hal think my USB devices are fixed? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910141240130.73916@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1255542419.22880.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910141055410.73454@wonkity.com> <1255542419.22880.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:04 -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> Fixed as opposed to removable. hal used to see these USB >> devices--USB memory sticks, memory cards in a reader--as removable >> devices. Which they are. >> >> Same computer, same config that used to automount these devices as >> removable, but now FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and hal says they are fixed devices: >> >> org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed no <-- (action, result). >> >> Is this due to the USB system? > > I have stopped development of hal-0.5.11. I have put a lot of work into > the upcoming 0.5.13 release to fix numerous issues with USB detection. > I have been getting good results on -CURRENT with various USB sticks. > You may want to give that a try. You can get the port from the ports > module at http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi . That's a definite improvement. USB sticks work fine, or at least the three I have here work fine. The memory card reader still comes up as fixed. This is a Sandisk SDDRX3-3in1 with multiple slots. da0 and da1 always come up, along with the s1 slice of whichever memory card is loaded. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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