Ext. firewire disk disconnection and persistence of da* entry...

[Barry Bouwsma]

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> > enlighten me as to what it would be, given the alternative of hanging
> > attempts to access the device under my old RELENG_4 ?

> See manpage of sbp(4).

Hmmm, checking manpage.  Nothing obvious -- Ooops, these are the man
pages from last December, on which I was doing my hacking.  Reading
the latest man pages, that I haven't built yet, I see what you mean.
I need to get online more often...


> You can detach the drive after 4 or 5 'fwcontrol -r'.

Ah yes, another program that didn't exist back in December.  Well, I
guess it's time for me to build the whole world, as well as just the
kernel...


> > (PS:  I'll see about syncing the rest of my hacks against the latest code
> > to see what more is needed to get my drive working reliably, and sending

> Could you describe a detail of the problem?

I believe -- but I am not certain, because I've been running with my
hacked codes from half a year ago, that the drive is not reliably
recognized every time it's attached, but it is recognized every second
or third time.  But I am not certain, since it has been a while since
I was using a kernel with the latest codes, and then only to see what
did and did not work perfectly.

Also, I could be confused, because the drive works both as a Firewire
peripheral, and as a USB2/1 device, and I may have seen this with the
USB1.x codes, or perhaps with the USB2 codes I've tried to extract
from 5.x and NetBSD and merge into 4_RELENG -- I needed hacks to the
USB code from last December, and I see I've changed several USB files
from last week's 4.x source.

I will let you know after some days, when I've rebooted my machine into
this year's 4.x, just what the problem was.  And I'll also see if the
hacks I made could be applied to fix the problem.


Thanks, and sorry for not completely updating my system before asking
my last question...

Barry Bouwsma