From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 16:10:21 2007 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 60FF616A474 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:10:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com) Received: from bostonserver.studsvik-analytic.com (firewall.studsvik-analytic.com [155.212.59.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A04613C458 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:10:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (pc142.studsvik-analytic.com [192.168.169.142]) by bostonserver.studsvik-analytic.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id lBCG1cXl002938; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:01:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47600A58.3080802@studsvik.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:20:40 -0500 From: Patrick Baldwin Organization: Studsvik Scandpower User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Tomlinson References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net> <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> <4760060A.2000205@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <4760060A.2000205@mykitchentable.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:10:21 -0000 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: 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.