Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:20:40 -0500 From: Patrick Baldwin <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? Message-ID: <47600A58.3080802@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <4760060A.2000205@mykitchentable.net> References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net> <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> <4760060A.2000205@mykitchentable.net>
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Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 12/12/2007 7:50 AM Patrick Baldwin said the following: >> Trix Farrar wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: >>>> Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a >>>> FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, >>>> but: >>>> >>>> webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive >>>> mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block >>>> >>> >>> It's probably formatted msdosfs. Have you tried: >>> >>> webmail# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive >>> >> >> No, I hadn't, but that doesn't seem to work either: >> >> mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument >> >> webmail# dmesg >> umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2 >> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 >> da0: <WD 1600BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device >> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers >> da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C) >> mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry >> mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > > Just a guess here but it's likely the drive was formatted as NTFS > instead of FAT-32 if it's a recent drive. Try mount_ntfs. > > HTH, Tried that, got: webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount_ntfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument Which doesn't make any sense to me, as it seems to be telling me the /dev/da0s1 is an invalid argument. Just for the hell of it, I tried: webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdrive mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument Argh. Hate it when what I expected to be a simple task eats this much time.
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