Re: USB (internally fixed) card reader questions

Hans Petter Selasky schrieb am 30.05.2009 12:03 (localtime):
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> If recompiling hald and checking that libusb is up to date, 
> see /usr/src/lib/libusb, does not solve your problem, then write me some text 
> about how to get going using usbconfig, and I will add it as a workaround FAQ 
> for USB flash cards.

After updating to todays -current and all ports (including hal), I can 
again use the `true > /dev/da0` trick and with the second insertion of 
the card hal "exports" the media. That's same like with 7-stable before.
But inserting a UFD leads to hal death.
Here's what I get from dmesg:
ugen3.3: <USB> at usbus3
umass1: <USB Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 3> on usbus3
umass1:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000
umass1:6:1:-1: Attached to scbus6
xptioctl: pass driver is not in the kernel
xptioctl: put "device pass" in your kernel config file
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have 
changed
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da4: <I-Stick2 IntelligentStick 2.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da4: 40.000MB/s transfers
da4: 249MB (511488 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 249C)
GEOM: da4: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: da4: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da4s1 is msdosfs/BIOS-UFD.

Before the UFS plugin I had some hald-addon-storage: /dev/da0 etc.
These are all gone, just these left:
1084  ??  Ss     0:00,43 /usr/local/sbin/hald
  1088  ??  I      0:00,04 hald-runner
  1122  ??  I      0:00,01 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 
(hald-addon-mouse-sy)
  1132  ??  I      0:00,01 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums1 
(hald-addon-mouse-sy)
  1156  ??  S      0:00,04 hald-addon-storage: /dev/acd0 
(hald-addon-storage)
  1158  ??  S      0:00,07 hald-addon-storage: /dev/acd1 
(hald-addon-storage)
  1439  ??  S      0:00,01 hald-addon-storage: /dev/probe0 
(hald-addon-storage)

Now I have some essential question:
I know that inserting a Flash Card in a fixed USB card reader doesn't 
inform the kernel that there's a new media, so I have to issue a write 
request to get the GEOM notified. This is not easily fixable, as far as 
I remember some discussion at least one year ago.
But after GEOM knows about the new labels, hal still doesn't catch them. 
First I have to pull out and reinsert the card.
Is that fixable?

Do I have to use `camcontrol eject` before removing flash cards from 
fixed readers?

Any hope for my UFD-hal problem?
Especially the "xptioctl: put "device pass" in your kernel config file" 
error message seems very odd to me.

Best regards,

-Harry