Why does hal think my USB devices are fixed?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:46 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> 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.

I don't have any card readers, but as Hans pointed out, this part will
come from the SCSI subsystem.  If CAM says the device is not removable,
then hal will go with that.

Joe

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