USB (internally fixed) card reader questions

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:25:02AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 30 May 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >
> >>On Saturday 30 May 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> >>>On Sat, 30 May 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >>
> >>>It is not just USB flash cards.  I have similar problem with
> >>>external USB disk drives.  See earlier (unanswered) posting:
> >>>
> >>>   http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-May/006964.html
> >>>
> >>>And usbconfig(8) could be a little more helpful (the commands
> >>>could use a description for what they do).
> >>
> >>I'm not sure who is at fault, USB or hald. It looks to me like hald does 
> >>not
> >>detect that the flash card is plugged in during startup, and does not 
> >>mount
> >>it.
> >
> >Is hald needed for this?  I am not currently running X because
> >it doesn't work any longer with my Intel 945GM chipset.
> >
> >I will try removing hald from the equation.
> 
> Hmm, how about that!  Removing hald (and dbus) solved the
> problem.  I can attach and detach the external drive without
> any problems.

It is just guessing, but maybe hald keeps the device opened, so GEOM
never retastes the drive.

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