I've got a set of external hard drives I hook up to my OS 2008.05 box that I run some backups onto. I do some zfs send/recv's over to the drive, then export the pool, then pull out the drive, put in the next one (same usb port), and then I'm set for my next day's backups.
That seemed to work for a while. Unfortunately, now if I try to plug in a new drive (on the same USB port, of course) it won't recognize the drive. Even when the drive isn't plugged in, format -e still shows it as an available disk (c5t0d0), but of course can't actually do anything with it. Seems like if I could get the format command to quit seeing this stuck device, things would work again. Is there anything I'm doing wrong or any service I can restart to clear all this out (short of restarting the server, of course, since I'm sure this will just happen again)? Already tried restarting hal and rmvolmgr, tried rmmount, devfsadm -C. Nothing works. format -e also reports "drive type unknown" for this "stuck" device. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
