On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:18 -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:58:56AM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get my hotplug utility, which works well with usb
> > devices, to work with firewire devices under 5-STABLE. But when I devd
> > doesn't seem to do anything with firewire devices and when I cat
> > /dev/devctl I get get nothing on firewire. Is there a sysctl I can
> > tune or do I need to upgrade to the 6-{RELEASE,CURRENT} branch?
> >
>
> Also, will devd generate events for the attachment of a da[0-9]
> device?No. Unfortunately, CAM is not newbus-ified, and thus will not send devctl events. ATA disks will in 6.X and higher, though. > Right now it seems as though it doesn't and that is > problematic. The issue is this. If I attach my usb pendrive to my > computer it gets devices umass0 and da0. But if I attach a firewire > device first then my usb pendrive is umass0, da1. So, if events aren't > generated to say that da1 has become available then I have to figure > out what umass0 is connected to. Yep. You should be able to work backwards through the CAM subsystem to obtain this information. Take a look at the output of ``camcontrol devlist -v''. The information is there, and you can use libcam to get it. Joe > > Thanks in advance > Chris > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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