changing cards in a reader

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Scott Mitchell wrote

Hi Robert,

Weird - that's what works for me, so I don't know how much more help I can
offer, but here are a few suggestions that might help us figure out what's
going on...

> Boot with 128MB card installed.
>
> hp# ls -l /dev/da*
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  20 Jun 26 18:50 /dev/da0
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  21 Jun 26 18:50 /dev/da1
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  22 Jun 26 18:50 /dev/da2
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  24 Jun 26 18:50 /dev/da2s1
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  23 Jun 26 18:50 /dev/da3

Ah... you're running FreeBSD 5 - it was pretty late when I wrote that first
reply, so I didn't notice that immediately.  Unlike FreeBSD 4, where stuff
in /dev/ had to be created manually, FreeBSD 5 uses devfs to create the
device nodes as needed, when devices come and go.  I haven't actually used
my card reader on 5 yet, so I could be missing something obvious here...

> Remove 128MB card and insert 8MB card
>
> hp# camcontrol rescan 0:0:2
> Re-scan of 0:0:2 was successful

What does 'fdisk da2' give you at this point?
Do you get anything in /var/log/messages when you insert the new card?

It might be worth doing a 'camcontrol start' after the rescan, just in
case, but I don't really think that will make any difference.

Since you're running FreeBSD 5, it might be worth re-porting your question
to the freebsd-current mailing list, to see if anyone there can shed some
light on this.

Sorry I can't be more help,

Scott


Aloha and mahalo Scott
I had tried the "camcontrol start" before but I tried again without any good stuff.
Fdisk seems to show the correct readings but I could use some help interpreting
the output of "/var/log/messages".
 
I am traveling now so I am using my laptop which is running current. When I return
to Kona (7-6) I will try on one of my desktops that are running 5.2.1

Thanks again for helping.
Robert

hp# ls -l /mnt/olympus
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8192 Jun 26 14:24 dcim
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8192 Jan  1  1980 imolym
hp# umount /mnt/olympus
hp# camcontrol eject 0:0:2
Unit stopped successfully, Media ejected

Remove 8MB card and insert 128MB card

hp# camcontrol rescan 0:0:2
Re-scan of 0:0:2 was successful
hp# fdisk da2
******* Working on device /dev/da2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=125 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)

parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=125 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6 (0x06),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB))
    start 47, size 255953 (124 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 16;
        end: cyl 499/ head 15/ sector 32
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>


Jun 27 09:01:13 hp su: robert to root on /dev/ttyp0
Jun 27 09:03:01 hp kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jun 27 09:03:01 hp kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
Jun 27 09:03:01 hp kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): SCSI Status: Check Condition
Jun 27 09:03:01 hp kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
Jun 27 09:03:01 hp kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
Jun 27 09:03:01 hp kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
hp#

hp# camcontrol start 0:0:2
Unit started successfully
hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus
mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: Invalid argument
hp#