On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:12:00AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > Running FreeBSD 6.0 here. > > I have a USB-attached floppy/CF/SD combo reader. On powerup it is detected > and I get /dev/da0 as the CF slot: > > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <OEI-USB CompactFlash 2.0> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 1.000MB/s transfers > da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present > da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 > da1: <OEI-USB SM/MS/SD 2.0> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da1: 1.000MB/s transfers > da1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present > > However, when I insert a CF card with normal partioning I need /dev/da0s1, > and this is not present in the /dev filesystem because the partition table > has not been read. <snip> > The only way I can see to *force* the superblock to be read is to attempt to > mount the whole device as if it were unpartitioned. This is sufficient to > cause the /dev/da0s1 entry to appear in the /dev filesystem. <snip> > At this point, everything works as expected. > > My question is: is there an easier or more direct way to cause the partition > table of the CF card to be read and the /dev filesystem to update?
Try 'camcontrol rescan all' (as root). Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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