devfs and hot unplugging firewire device

[Eric Anderson]

On 09/20/06 15:16, M. L. Dodson wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 14:42, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> M. L. Dodson wrote this message on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 14:14 -0500:
>>> More experimental results on firewire disks and hot unplugging:
>>>
>>> Transcripts of two sessions can be retrieved from
>>> http://siegfried.utmb.edu/bdodson/firewire.on.histidine.txt and
>>> http://siegfried.utmb.edu/bdodson/firewire.on.serine.txt
>> doh, I think I know what your problem is...  you need to do three
>> or so fwcontrol -r's before the device will disappear...  This is
>> necessary, since each plug causes a rescan, and you don't want devices
>> disappearing when you add your cd drive...  It looks like adding a
>> timeout would be a good thing to the device orphan...  If the device
>> has been orphaned for more than a minute, drop it, or three or so
>> resets...
>>
> 
> That worked.  Thanks again!
> Bud Dodson
> 


It's too bad firewire doesn't act more like USB storage in this case - 
you can yank and plug in the same or similar storage using the same 
adapter many many times without issue - I've done this many times.

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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