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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:39:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com>
To:        Jennifer <jennifer@tevn.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: USB STORAGE MOUNT
Message-ID:  <20030410173900.60659.qmail@web41412.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <00b201c2ff20$0dc44c80$c20a0a0a@spicygirl>

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--- Jennifer <jennifer@tevn.com> wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD people
> 
> I bought a key chain memory storage USB disk, 64Mb,
> recently
> I can use it on any windows system, but I want to
> try to mount it from Freebsd 4.3.
> I read some documents from websites, that say you
> can  use command as follows to mount this kind of
> device:
> 
> # makdir /mnt/usb
> # mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/usb
> 
> but I can not mount it using those commands, and I
> get the following error message:
> device not configured. 
> 
>  So I just leave the memory device in the usb port
> on the machine, and reboot the machine, then mount
> the device using the command:
> # mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/usb
> 
> This time I got some other errors, someting like
> kernal panic, etc. 
> 
> I checked my running kernel, and found all the
> services, which are needed to enable usb devices are
> open already. 
> Can you kindly give me some adive on that? 
> Thank you very much
> Jennifer
> 
> 

It looks like you are trying to mount your harddrive
(/dev/ad0s1) at /mnt/usb. If you are using an IDE
drive as your boot/system drive then it(/dev/ad0s1) is
in use.

Take a look at dmesg to see what device it is detected as.

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