HAL on FreeBSD 5.5

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 20:59 +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19. December 2006 20:19, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > More errors may fall out if you run hald manually:
> >
> > /usr/local/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
> 
> Output from that: http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/hald-foreground-verbose.txt
> 
> Highlights:
> 
> hald-probe-storage WARNING: /dev/acd0: unable to get capabilities: IOCATA 
> failure: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> hald-probe-storage WARNING: /dev/acd1: unable to get capabilities: IOCATA 
> failure: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> To be sure, this is 5.5-*Release*. Should hald requires 5-STABLE, I can 
> upgrade and give that a shot, too.

Thanks to Nigel Wohlers, I was able to get access to a 5.X machine, and
I have prepared some patches which seem to do the trick.  They should
handle new media insertions as well as existing media.

http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-hal_ata

Joe

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