Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:37 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <parish@magichamster.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: External USB disk won't mount Message-ID: <483DAB21.3090909@magichamster.com> In-Reply-To: <483DA683.1020705@telenix.org> References: <483DA3FA.9030404@magichamster.com> <483DA683.1020705@telenix.org>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with > him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he > plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets his usb > buss, just to experiment and see if that got his devices correctly detected, but > he didn't yet reply, I don't know if it worked for him. I don't have something > like that to experiment with. > > With yours, you obviously have a da2 ... that only means you have a > direct-access disk devide #2 being detected. The next step is to figure oout > what kind of formatting you have. Hopefully, it's been fdisk'ed to where it has > partitions, so do this (as root): "/sbin/fdisk /dev/da2", and in fdisk, give the > 'p' command, this will print out the formatting for any partitions. Likely it's > either one of the various Microsoft things, or a Linux one, or even a FreeBSD > one. Depending on what you see, you either directly give a mount command next, > to the right partition, or maybe you use bsdlable to find out what the > disk-labelling is (if it's a FreeBSD disk). > Hi Chuck, The next line in my post after where you snipped was: (The disk is from another FreeBSD system so is UFS2 and da2s1f is /usr on the other system) It contains a running FBSD 7.0 system - it's out of a spare box I was using for testing and it mounts/reads/writes fine using the other USB enclosure I borrowed. There's just something screwy about the enclosure I've bought (typical eh?) Regards, Mark
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