From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 13:25:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96EBD106564A for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B788FC0A for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K79Hq-0000Yq-IR for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:25:50 -0700 Message-ID: <17823354.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:25:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Colin_Brace To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <25515aa06ecb67b43d2a517bcceed88f@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: cb@lim.nl References: <25515aa06ecb67b43d2a517bcceed88f@localhost> Subject: Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument [SOLVED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:25:51 -0000 Colin_Brace wrote: > > I am having difficulties mounting a USB drive under 7.0-STABLE. Running > sysinstall, I can create a partition and format it. But sysinstall is > unable to mount it: > > Error mounting /dev/da0s1d on /media/disk6 : Invalid argument > > The same error ocurrs when I try to mount it manually on the command line. > I have tried various mount points, to no avail. > > Anyone have any ideas what is going wrong? > I am not sure what was going wrong then, but I now have this working, both with a Myson-based chipset device (ATA->USB) as well as a JMicron-based device (SATA->USB). I am not sure whether this is a factor, but I also added a USB v2 PCI card to the box (it is an older Pentium IV with a motherboard that only supports USB v1.1). The chipset of this card is Via. For several of the ext3 partitions, I had to run "fsck_ext2fs" first before I could mount them. Thanks for the various suggestions; they pointed me in the right direction. ----- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/error-mounting-USB-disk%3A-Invalid-argument-tp17572449p17823354.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.