[kde-freebsd] multislot cardreader and hald

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:51:37 -0600, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:

> on 20/12/2007 18:47 Jeremy Messenger said the following:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:28:01 -0600, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua>  
>> 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 freebsd-usb at .
>
> 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.

Cheers,
Mezz


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