5.1 devfs and lost device on media errors

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 20 05:46:10 PDT 2003


In message <200310200630.14387.john at johnrshannon.com>, "John R. Shannon" writes
:
>Is there a way to prevent a device (eg /dev/sa0) from being removed from /dev 
>when a media error occurs?

It should only be removed if the scsi_sa driver think the drive has
gone away.  Not being a scsi specialist I'm not sure how much help
I gave give beyond that.  What does "camcontrol devlist" show  ?


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