On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Stefan Walter wrote: > Doug White, 11.04.03, 02:09h CEST: > > > > is there a way to make devfs rescan the partition table of a device? > > > Currently (i.e. 5.0-RELEASE with me), I cannot access ZIP disks if there > > > wasn't any medium in the ZIP drive at boot time, as devfs doesn't create > > > the device files for the slices (which is understandable, as there > > > weren't any slice then). "camcontrol rescan" (it's a SCSI device) > > > apparently just scans for devices and doesn't help with creating the > > > slices' device files. > > > > don't they just auto-clone themselves? > > How? The device files are and remain missing, no matter what I do. > In my case, /dev/da1s4 (for DOS/Windows formatted media) is missing if > there wasn't any ZIP disk in the drive at boot time: Even if you, say, try to mount it? Even when the file is missing? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Apr 11 2003 - 16:25:24 UTC
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