SCSI device not created upon a CF card plug in

[Bruce Simpson]

Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:14:18AM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote
>> If you conversant in this area, could you help us to identify what is/are 
>> the exact function/s in which program/s to look into identify the media 
>> insertion activity, so that we can generate relevant devd event. 
>>     
>
> No, I'm not. In your position I would study the device specs -
> does it generate hardware event in case of media change in first place?
>
> If yes, I'd read sources of umass driver to see how it generates events
> for single flash device and add such event for reader's media change.
>   

rwatson@ has or has had a patch to do something like this.

It is complicated by the fact that GEOM and NEWBUS don't necessarily 
talk to each other directly.

I agree something needs to be done about removable volume management in 
FreeBSD.

cheers,
BMS