Ext. firewire disk disconnection and persistence of da* entry...

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa]

At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:31:02 +0200 (CEST),
Barry Bouwsma wrote:
> There's probably a good reason NOT to do this; would someone care to
> enlighten me as to what it would be, given the alternative of hanging
> attempts to access the device under my old RELENG_4 ?

See manpage of sbp(4).
You can detach the drive after 4 or 5 'fwcontrol -r'.

> (PS:  I'll see about syncing the rest of my hacks against the latest code
> to see what more is needed to get my drive working reliably, and sending
> that info Real Soon Now[tm] ... but it'll take a while to catch up on the
> last nine months of changes)

Could you describe a detail of the problem?

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