Forcing GEOM to re-taste a device

Anish Mistry amistry at am-productions.biz
Fri Aug 31 06:58:15 PDT 2007


On Friday 31 August 2007, Peter Schuller wrote:
> I am having trouble with a USB stick (a Verbatim store'n'go, 4 GB).
> It seems there is a timing problem. On insertion there are
> complaints that there is no medium present when attempting to
> discover the size of the device. It goes on to retry but eventually
> bails out.
>
> However sometimes (only once so far) it manages to successfully
> retry and discover slices; presumably due to timing.
>
> So I would like to force GEOM to re-taste the media ("camcontrol
> rescand da0" is not enough). Is there a way to do this?
cat /dev/null > /dev/da0
That should retaste the device.



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Anish Mistry
amistry at am-productions.biz
AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/
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