devfs and hot unplugging firewire device

[M. L. Dodson]

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 14:42, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> M. L. Dodson wrote this message on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 14:14 -0500:
> > More experimental results on firewire disks and hot unplugging:
> >
> > Transcripts of two sessions can be retrieved from
> > http://siegfried.utmb.edu/bdodson/firewire.on.histidine.txt and
> > http://siegfried.utmb.edu/bdodson/firewire.on.serine.txt
>
> doh, I think I know what your problem is...  you need to do three
> or so fwcontrol -r's before the device will disappear...  This is
> necessary, since each plug causes a rescan, and you don't want devices
> disappearing when you add your cd drive...  It looks like adding a
> timeout would be a good thing to the device orphan...  If the device
> has been orphaned for more than a minute, drop it, or three or so
> resets...
>

That worked.  Thanks again!
Bud Dodson

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