Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:29:29 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problems trying to mount SDHC card .... Message-ID: <20141026052929.ef41a037.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <544C34A2.1070806@hiwaay.net> References: <544C34A2.1070806@hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:39:14 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > .... I am trying to mount some SDHC cards through a USB reader > (Transcend USB 2.0) with an eye towards using them to create bootable > drives for a Raspberry Pi B+. In that case, you probably won't have anything to do with mounting the SD card (especially not as a MS-DOS file system). The thing you're going to do here probably isn't much more than "dd if=pi.img of=/dev/da0", and Xfce is not able to help here. When the image has been written, there's probably a file system different from FAT on the card. > When I try to view the drive through > XFCE's 'flash File Manager' (from top toolbar) it pops up an error > dialog saying: > > mount_msdosfs: can't find or load "msdos_iconv" kernel module > mount_msdosfs: msdos_iconv: operation not permitted. Is the card currently formatted? What does # fdisk da0 say (if /dev/da0 is the SD card reader)? Or with today's tools, # gpart show da0 Also check the dmesg entries in relation to the card reader. Anything suspicious? In case the card is formatted with FAT, can you _manually_ mount it? > I am doing this as an ordinary user, something in fstab or amd.conf ? I'm surprised you get any reaction at all. I never got automounting to work with Xfce... If you have the automounting stuff via HAL and DBUS, your /etc/fstab won't probably have an entry for the SD card reader, and /etc/amd.conf is probably totally out of scope here. Maybe this is an expression of the growing incompatibilities between Linux (where Xfce has been created for) and FreeBSD? I'm a bit surprised about the "msdos_iconv" kernel module, which should be present. Can you manually load it, maybe via /boot/loader.conf? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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