> >I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be > >to "wake" it up with the following incantation:
> > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 > >That's what works here. See the thread starting with > ><http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212109.html> > true > /dev/da0 > is a little shorter and safer. The search keywords for this are "GEOM > retaste" or "retasting". Could you also do a read such as dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=16k count=1 ? Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"