Re: kern/41127: Creating a new filesystem on usbstick fails

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41127; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/41127: Creating a new filesystem on usbstick fails
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:52:25 -0400

 On Apr 3,  1:10pm, kaph%zhaw.ch@localhost (kaph%zhaw.ch@localhost) wrote:
 -- Subject: kern/41127: Creating a new filesystem on usbstick fails
 
 | >Number:         41127
 | >Category:       kern
 | >Synopsis:       Creating a new filesystem on usbstick fails
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 03 13:10:00 +0000 2009
 | >Originator:     Christoph Kaegi
 | >Release:        5.0_RC2 20090315
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | NetBSD clt-mob-v-0289 5.0_RC2 NetBSD 5.0_RC2 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Mar 15 
21:32:21 UTC 2009  
builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5/i386/200903150000Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
 i386
 | >Description:
 | 
 | Sticking a freshly cleaned (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0d bs=512 count=1)
 | usb stick into the machine, labeling it (disklabel -re sd0) and trying to 
create an ufs filesystem on it (newfs /dev/sd0a) fails with:
 | 
 | newfs: /dev/sd0a: open for write: Device busy
 | 
 | Nothing obvious uses the usb stick. Rebooting changes nothing. Tested on 
Dell Latitude E6400 and a Dell Desktop GX280.
 | 
 | Accessing an usb stick which already contains an ffs filesystem works ok.
 | >How-To-Repeat:
 | 
 | - put an usb stick into your 5.0_RC2 machine
 | - dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd?d bs=512 count=1
 | - disklabel -re sd?
 | - newfs /dev/sd??
 | >Fix:
 
 
 use /dev/rsd0a ?
 
 christos