Why does hal think my USB devices are fixed?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Oct 14 18:46:46 UTC 2009
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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