ports/165318: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable"

[Jeremy Messenger]

The following reply was made to PR ports/165318; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com>
To: Mel Flynn <rflynn at acsalaska.net>
Cc: mezz at freebsd.org, gnome at freebsd.org, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/165318: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable"
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:03:50 -0500

 On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mel Flynn <rflynn at acsalaska.net> wrote:
 > On 3/17/2012 18:43, mezz at FreeBSD.org wrote:
 >> Synopsis: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable"
 >>
 >> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 >> State-Changed-By: mezz
 >> State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 17 17:43:16 UTC 2012
 >> State-Changed-Why:
 >> Have you follow this yet?: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3
 >
 > Yes. HalFaq was followed on installation of the desktop and at that time
 > the disk was correctly identified as removable.
 >
 > Now, when we try to mount the disk the policykit error refers to
 > mount-fixed permission, not mount-removable. The users have
 > mount-removable permissions (and now mount-fixed as a work around).
 > The lshal output provided with the report, clearly shows that removable
 > is not set. I've done tracing in hald source to see where it gets it's
 > info from and it points to cam, but I'm unable to figure out how to get
 > that info from camcontrol(8). If you know a way how to do that, I'll add
 > it to the report.
 
 Read in the manpage and the 'camcontrol inquiry <device>' will show
 you if it's removable.
 
 # camcontrol inquiry cd0
 pass2: <TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653F DW10> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
 pass2: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes)
 
 Cheers,
 Mezz
 
 
 > --
 > Mel
 
 
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