USB Flash reader under RELENG_6: force GEOM rescan
Zaphod Beeblebrox
zbeeble at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 06:26:01 PST 2006
On 2/10/06, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
Concerning the SCSI and CAM code I'm not an expert, but I
> think it should be possible to nudge devfs when a rescan
> has detected a new device.
You'd think, but no. You see, the device , according to CAM, doesn't
change. Magically, it has more blocks, but it's the "same" device to cam.
Atacontrol can remove a device, but camcontrol can't. It seems it would be
sufficient to be able to have camcontrol force a rescan, but you can't.
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