On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 14:35 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >I also have a similar device, which I've been messing with a bit the > > >last couple of days. In your case, it isn't seeing the media, just > > > the "drive". I've had to try various combinations of unplugging > > > the adapter from usb, inserting the media then plugging it back in. > > > It does seem to work fairly reliably if you boot with the media > > > already inserted, but it doesn't seem to detect media change at > > > all. > > > > I get around it (on my cheap reader) by always doing a > > cat /dev/null > /dev/da1 > > whever I change or insert new media into the reader > > > > That seems to work with the gear I have 99% of the time. > > Hmm OK, I sort of expected fdisk da1 to fail straightaway though (it > takes ~30 seconds to fail for me). > > I have unplugged it for now, it interacts annoyingly with SANE because > that scans the SCSI bus(es) looking for scanner and each umass takes > 30+ seconds to fail.
FWIW, on yesterdays kernel, mine seems to be working properly and detecting media change. I'm not sure what change helped. Note that I am running -CURRENT. robert. -- Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> FreeBSD _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"