Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:35:40 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal signal 11 when external USB disk added? Message-ID: <20080317183540.170F64500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:44:53 EDT." <47DEA005.3090907@freebsd.org>
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--==_Exmh_1205778940_74408P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline This really needs to be documented (FAQ?). It explains some problems I've seen (with a WD Passport, too), but I was unaware of the limitation. Spaces are pretty common in FAT and NTFS volume labels. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:44:53 -0400 > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > > Mike Harding wrote: > > I got one of those little USB WD passport drives to see if I could use > > it for external backup. As soon as I plugged it in, HAL dies (sorry > > HAL!). Any ideas? > > Volume labels that contain spaces are not supported. Relabel the disk > so that there are no spaces, and it should work. > > Joe > > > > > Mar 16 19:17:50 bsd kernel: umass0: <Western Digital External HDD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2> on uhub4 > > Mar 16 19:17:50 bsd root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1058 product 0x0702 bus uhub4 > > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0: <WD 2500BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device > > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers > > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0: 238475MB (488397168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30401C) > > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/WD Passport. > > Mar 16 19:17:53 bsd kernel: pid 98596 (hald), uid 560: exited on signal 11 --==_Exmh_1205778940_74408P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFH3rn8kn3rs5h7N1ERAonwAJ4xg97V4gJUWGb5ZxdZlJXyDgm1wQCglrni 5QX17vgXPmY5NQLDVq+32s8= =/6aZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1205778940_74408P--
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