Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050328134856.GF14532 at cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:

>> Driver support for this is not really meaterialized and therefore
>> the model now is that when the media is ejected the geom device
>> is removed and a new one created right away, even if a new media
>> is not inserted right away.
>
>Do you get eject notifications from any device type?

Right now I belive floppy disks DTRT.

>One of my problems is that it is possible with SCSI MO drives to
>eject the media, reinsert a new one and errously continue to work
>with the old GEOM layout.
>I already trashed the data on one media by forgetting to trigger
>a reprobe - since then I use a mount script.

Well, I have no idea how to pull the information out of the CAM/SCSI
code, but I'm sure there is _some_ way it can be done.

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