Missing devs...

[Micah]

Aren Olvalde Tyr wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Sunday 28 May 2006 21:42, Anders Troback wrote:
> 
>> In my usbd.conf I have:
>>
>> device "Sony Ericsson W810i"
>>    devname "umass[0-9]+"
>>    vendor  0x0fce
>>    product 0xe042
>>    attach "sleep 5 ; /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/da1 /mnt ; /etc/rc.d/devfs
>> restart"
>>
>> As I said, this works for me but it seams to be a bit stupid that this
>> kind of workaround is needed...
> 
> Yes, indeed. I was thinking about doing a similar workaround, but surely there 
> must be a better way of doing this. We need a way for mount to automatically 
> probe the device for filesystems first before attempting to mount the slice.
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions?
> 
> Just out of interest, during bootup, what command is executed to probe the 
> devices? If I put a memory card in my reader before booting the system up, 
> the filesystem slices on the card are detected, the device node[s] are 
> created and I can mount it straight away. 
> 
> This is the command I want, rather than having to run a mount command that we 
> know will fail just to create the nodes.
> 
> Aren.

I've not been following this thread too closely, but I think I've had 
the same problem in the past. I currently get around it by not leaving 
my media readers plugged in (they're both external USB readers). I 
insert my media card then plug in the reader and have no problems. I 
*think* true > /dev/da1 will get devfs to show the slices, but I can't 
find my old post that has that little bit of info in it. I always 
thought the device should trigger and event when media was inserted, and 
that the event should trigger devfs to show the slices....

Hope that provides insight,
Micah