gbde failure attaching /dev/fd0

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <3EB77DEF.3050407 at algroup.co.uk>, Ben Laurie writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <200305060048.16181.cbiffle at safety.net>, "Cliff L. Biffle" writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>gbde: Attach to fd0 failed: Provider needed
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, I have not yet released the adaptation class which allows you
>> to attach floppies and zip drives to the GEOM mesh, I'm having a hard
>> time finding a suitable way to deal with their "come and go" ability.
>
>This is the same problem I mentioned to you with USB memory devices -
>but those work - if I recall your advice was to not remove it before I
>unmounted it :-)

USB is somewhat different because it uses cam/scsi_da but there are
also issues related to removable devices there which I havn't solved.

There's a subtle difference between the case where the drive is
removable, like USB, and where the drive remains but the media is
removable, like Zip drives, and I need to cope with that.

>Incidentally, while we're on the subject, its not possible to automount
>USB devices, it seems, coz the appropriate device isn't fed through
>devd.conf.

That one is out of my range for now.

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