kern/93083: [firewire] Detach of Firewire Harddisk not recognied properly

[Gerhard Schmidt]

The following reply was made to PR kern/93083; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at augusta.de>
To: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris at vindaloo.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/93083: [firewire] Detach of Firewire Harddisk not recognied properly
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:47:25 +0200

 On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:18:28PM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
 > This appears to be "normal" behaviour for the firewire code in FreeBSD.
 > To convince a firewire drive to detach Initiate a firewire bus reset
 > with the fwcontrol command. To reset the bus use the -r command three
 > times in succession. It's a kludge but it works.
 > 
 >     # fwcontrol -r
 >     # fwcontrol -r
 >     # fwcontrol -r
 
 Not realy. It only works if you detach all firewire devices if you remove
 only one. and other are still remain the computer reboots shortly after
 the reset.
 
 But still it may work but its not the expected behaviour. I don't think 
 its very handy to have to do manual resets wenn you detach a device. 
 The firewire code gets the detach so why isn't there a test which device 
 has been removed and an autodetach of the spezific device. 
 
 Bye
         Estartu
 
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