From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 08:37:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C736016A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de (accms33.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.46.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8737443FE9 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.6/8.9.3) id h88FaRW11440; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:36:27 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:36:27 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" To: "Brian J. McGovern" Message-ID: <20030908153627.GB11337@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20030908151706.4ABF816A4F2@hub.freebsd.org> <200309081527.h88FRpsV027712@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200309081527.h88FRpsV027712@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:37:27 -0000 On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:27:51AM -0400, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I inserted an USB stick into a 5.1 FreeBSD box and > > was pleasantly surprised to see it being autodetected: > > > > umass0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 > > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device > > da0: 1.000MB/s transfers > > da0: 15MB (32000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 15C) > > ... and I've been sending patches as I get my hands on more brands/types. > Unfortunately, this isn't one of mine, so I can't claim credit ;) > > > But when I try to mount it, I'm getting > > > > # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt > > msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument > > > > See if there is a slice for the device, e.g. /dev/da0s1. Also, you can try > a fdisk on the device, in case it doesn't use the first slice (I've yet > to see this on USB devices, but ZIP drives used to use slice 4 for their > "DOS" partition). Thanks, it was the slice, as I later detected. > > If you still can't get it to work, drop me a line, and I can try to provide > some other pointers. On most devices, its a matter of tweaking the protocol > settings in umass.c. > > > > > Assumed I will get it working soon, how can I achieve that > > it is automatically mounted? > > Is there a user wrapper to mount/unmount the USB stick? > > > You should be able to set something up in /etc/usbd.conf for attach. Detach > may be a bit tricker, as you should unmount the filesystem before pulling the > stick. > -Brian Thanks. Will try that. So at least I was able now to mount it under root. -- Christoph