Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-26 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 26 Feb 2012, at 05:06, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 00:55:46 Kevin Oberman wrote: I thought he was creating a monolithic device...what was called dangerously dedicated. No slices at all. Not only are DD volumes yes, I remember

random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: I got a new thumb drive which was FAT formatted. I use this script to change this: !/bin/tcsh # # This script format a thumb drive connected to USB as da0. # printf You have to run this script as

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:     On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: I got a new thumb drive which was FAT formatted. I use this script to change this: !/bin/tcsh # # This script format a thumb

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:56:24 -0800 Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: =A0 =A0 On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: I got a new thumb drive which was FAT

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:     On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:56:24 -0800 Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: =A0 =A0 On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky

Re: geom vs. removable disks/cards (was: Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday)

2012-02-25 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 07:55 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: In article 1330126840.7317.60.ca...@revolution.hippie.lan you write: On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:39 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 24/02/2012 18:23 Ian Lepore said the following: I've always suspected something in the geom layer isn't

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 25 February 2012 17:27:30 Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: I got a new thumb drive which was FAT formatted. I use this script to change this: !/bin/tcsh # # This script format a thumb

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 00:17:40 Scott Bennett wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:56:24 -0800 Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: =A0 =A0 On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 00:55:46 Kevin Oberman wrote: I thought he was creating a monolithic device...what was called dangerously dedicated. No slices at all. Not only are DD volumes yes, I remember this term. And Windows machines get confused but they do not damage the media.

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-24 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 13:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Thursday 23 February 2012 20:22:57 Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 22.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Erich Dollansky: tunefs -L NewDeviceName /dev/da0a Either this call or the mount command does not work randomly.

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-24 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 24/02/2012 18:23 Ian Lepore said the following: I've always suspected something in the geom layer isn't noticing that a CF or SD card in the reader got removed/inserted/reformatted, and un-/re-plugging the whole reader (making the cam layer destroy and recreate the devices) makes geom

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
On Friday 24 February 2012 23:23:53 Ian Lepore wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 13:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Hi, On Thursday 23 February 2012 20:22:57 Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 22.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Erich Dollansky: tunefs -L NewDeviceName /dev/da0a Either this

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-24 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:39 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 24/02/2012 18:23 Ian Lepore said the following: I've always suspected something in the geom layer isn't noticing that a CF or SD card in the reader got removed/inserted/reformatted, and un-/re-plugging the whole reader (making the

geom vs. removable disks/cards (was: Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday)

2012-02-24 Thread Juergen Lock
In article 1330126840.7317.60.ca...@revolution.hippie.lan you write: On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:39 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 24/02/2012 18:23 Ian Lepore said the following: I've always suspected something in the geom layer isn't noticing that a CF or SD card in the reader got

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-23 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 22.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Erich Dollansky: tunefs -L NewDeviceName /dev/da0a Either this call or the mount command does not work randomly. When I then try to mount the device on /dev/da0a it does not work always. I do not know what this causes, I am only randomly able to

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 23 February 2012 20:22:57 Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 22.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Erich Dollansky: tunefs -L NewDeviceName /dev/da0a Either this call or the mount command does not work randomly. When I then try to mount the device on /dev/da0a it does not work

random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I got a new thumb drive which was FAT formatted. I use this script to change this: !/bin/tcsh # # This script format a thumb drive connected to USB as da0. # printf You have to run this script as 'root' to succeed.\n printf Warning this script will delete all your data from /dev/da0.