Re: Olimex A20 lime2: USB detached and rescan fails

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

[Replying to myself for archival purposes; at end:]

Le Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 06:37:25PM +0100, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost a écrit :
> I don't know if the behavior is specific to Arm, and, specially, to this
> SoC.
> 
> An Arm node (Olimex A20 lime2), running NetBSD 9.2, is used for an
> off-site backup.
> 
> The disk is external, in an USB enclosure, and connected to an USB 2.0
> socket (EHCI).
> 
> While doing the backup, one of the dedicated partitions went full ("no
> space left on device). The error led to the umass being detached and
> ---it is on uhub3---:
> 
> drvctl -r -a usbifif uhub3
> 
> or
> 
> drvctl -r -a usbdevif uhub3
> 
> does nothing (these incantations are taken from the current NetBSD man
> page and don't exist in the 9.2 one; so I don't even know if they can
> yield some result on a 9.2 system---but there is no error displayed).
> 
> Has someone experienced such thing (perhaps not only on Arm)? And is
> there a cure instead of rebooting or a physical intervention
> (unplugging, replugging)?
> 

Very likely related to NetBSD Problem Report #54977.
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