I am trying to use a Seagate FreeAgent USB drive (1.5TB) with FreeBSD. Seems to work okay... but I just learned that apparently these things like to put themselves in standby mode... This has resulted in the umass driver disconnecting the drive. However the mount table entry still remains.
- a umount -f doesn't work... it can't even find the non-existent device node to umount.
- tried a bunch of camcontrol commands to try to bring the drive back ... no workie
- finally unplugged then replugged the drive... however umass gave it a new device name (da3, it was da2 before), so umount still won't work...
Is there anything else I can do to umount this filesystem-in-limbo short of rebooting?
I gather there is some Windows utility to configure the drive to not go into standby... is there a FreeBSD equivalent?
(thx)
- a umount -f doesn't work... it can't even find the non-existent device node to umount.
- tried a bunch of camcontrol commands to try to bring the drive back ... no workie
- finally unplugged then replugged the drive... however umass gave it a new device name (da3, it was da2 before), so umount still won't work...
Is there anything else I can do to umount this filesystem-in-limbo short of rebooting?
I gather there is some Windows utility to configure the drive to not go into standby... is there a FreeBSD equivalent?
(thx)
