Problem with 16-in-1 card reader

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:32:01AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Robert Marella wrote:
> > This problem has been discussed many times on the lists. In order to
> > update devfs you can use:
> > 
> > cat /dev/null > /dev/daX
> > 
> > I seem to remember another method using dd.
> > 
> > I hope this helps.
> 
> The 'cat' way works, thanks. Perhaps we should add this info somewhere
> in a man page.

Hmm... doesn't seem to do the trick with my Samsung SGH-D600 phone:

Mar 13 08:31:56 k7 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
Mar 13 08:31:56 k7 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
Mar 13 08:31:56 k7 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
Mar 13 08:31:56 k7 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0
Mar 13 08:31:56 k7 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present
Mar 13 08:31:56 k7 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error
Mar 13 08:31:56 k7 kernel: Opened disk da0 -> 6


[/home/edwin] root at k7>cat /dev/null > /dev/da0 
su: /dev/da0: Device not configured


I blame the phone at this momment :-)

Edwin
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