On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:50:13PM -0500, Alexander P. Goldhammer wrote: i am really no scsi, usb, firewire specialist but i think for some of your questions i can give an answer :-)
> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Read(6)/write(6) not supported, increasing the > minimum_cmd_size to 10. this is normal. 4.8 first tried 6 byte scsi commands. as the messages says, for this device 10 byte scsi commands are required. the default changed in 4.9 from 6 to 10 bytes for usb devices. > #umass0: at hub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected > (da0:umass-sim0:0:0): lost device > (da0:umass-sim0:0:0): removing device entry > umass0: detached > > My intuition tells me this is not good. you should stop the drive before removing it (camcontrol stop 0:0:0). see camcontrol(8). > (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4 > (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device > (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device > (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this/fix this? when you stop the device (camcontrol), then remove it, reattaching should work. > b) If/when I plug it a USB/Firewire drive into this card how is the > "device name" specified? Or is there a command to figure this out? man 8 camcontrol > c) Is msdos the correct "filesystem" designation? if you share your data between windows and freebsd msdosfs is the right fs. but be aware i had problems with huge partitions and msdosfs see: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2003-May/000950.html http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004701.html hth toni -- Kann man etwas nicht verstehen, dann urteile man | toni at stderror dot at lieber gar nicht, als dass man verurteile. | Toni Schmidbauer -- Rudolf Steiner |
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