devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media

[Doug White]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Stefan Walter wrote:

> Doug White, 11.04.03, 02:09h CEST:
>
> > > is there a way to make devfs rescan the partition table of a device?
> > > Currently (i.e. 5.0-RELEASE with me), I cannot access ZIP disks if there
> > > wasn't any medium in the ZIP drive at boot time, as devfs doesn't create
> > > the device files for the slices (which is understandable, as there
> > > weren't any slice then). "camcontrol rescan" (it's a SCSI device)
> > > apparently just scans for devices and doesn't help with creating the
> > > slices' device files.
> >
> > don't they just auto-clone themselves?
>
> How? The device files are and remain missing, no matter what I do.
> In my case, /dev/da1s4 (for DOS/Windows formatted media) is missing if
> there wasn't any ZIP disk in the drive at boot time:

Even if you, say, try to mount it? Even when the file is missing?

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