On Thursday 20 December 2007 19:13:29 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:03 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:51:37 -0600, Andriy Gapon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on 20/12/2007 18:47 Jeremy Messenger said the following: > > >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:28:01 -0600, Andriy Gapon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> > > >> wrote: > > >>> When I connect a USB multislot cardreader (CF, SD, etc) with only one > > >>> card inserted to my computer my /var/log/messages gets spammed with > > >>> the endless reports like the following: > > >>> kernel: Opened disk da1 -> 6 > > >>> kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > >>> 0 0 > > >>> kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error > > >>> kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): SCSI Status: Check Condition > > >>> kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): NOT READY csi:0,aa,55,41 asc:3a,0 > > >>> kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): Medium not present field replaceable > > >>> unit: 1 > > >>> kernel: (da2:umass-sim0:0:0:2): Unretryable error > > >>> kernel: Opened disk da2 -> 6 > > >>> kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > >>> 0 0 > > >>> kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error > > >>> kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): SCSI Status: Check Condition > > >>> kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): NOT READY csi:0,aa,55,41 asc:3a,0 > > >>> kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Medium not present field replaceable > > >>> unit: 1 > > >>> kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): Unretryable error > > >>> kernel: Opened disk da3 -> 6 > > >>> > > >>> These reports are for the empty slots. > > >>> If I disable hald these messages get printed only a few times, but > > >>> with hald this happens endlessly, apparently every 2 seconds. > > >>> > > >>> I am curious if this is hald itself or KDE acting through it. > > >> > > >> It's FreeBSD since you still get w/out hald, report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > It's true that messages come from the kernel but, as I said, without > > > hald I get only a few of them and that's it. With hald running these > > > messages are produced every 2 seconds until the card-reader is > > > disconnected. So hald must be doing something silly here, like never > > > giving up on probing those da disks without any media behind them. > > > > I am no expert on hald, but if I understand it correct. If there is no > > probe in hald then hald will never know if you put/keep your da disks in > > and pull out. I bet other OSs do the same things. Correct me if I am > > wrong. > > This is a FreeBSD problem, but it's not a hal problem per se. I think > the GEOM/SCSI people are working to hide these kind of messages, but in > the meantime, you either need to live with them, stop using hal, or tell > hal to stop probing that device. > > The way hal works is that it periodically probes devices to determine if > there is media changes. In this manner, hal can auto-mount volumes. If > you do not want to auto-mount media from this device, then search the > archives for ways to manipulate the .fdi files to stop hal from probing > this device. Again, the ideal solution would be for the kernel people > to hide these messages behind verbose booting. > Ideal solution will be this way if you insert media into reader then it sends kernel a message about insertion (I guess cd/dvd works that way) and tell HALd to mount that device. IIRC then on Linux hald works correctly- this is only FreeBSD problem.
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