devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media

[Doug White]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Stefan Walter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a way to make devfs rescan the partition table of a device?
> Currently (i.e. 5.0-RELEASE with me), I cannot access ZIP disks if there
> wasn't any medium in the ZIP drive at boot time, as devfs doesn't create
> the device files for the slices (which is understandable, as there
> weren't any slice then). "camcontrol rescan" (it's a SCSI device)
> apparently just scans for devices and doesn't help with creating the
> slices' device files.

don't they just auto-clone themselves?

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