From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 03:11:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A568A16A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:11:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from argon.ess.washington.edu (argon.ess.washington.edu [128.95.132.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8BD43D2F for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:11:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from les@ess.washington.edu) Received: from argon.ess.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j373Blvj003592 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:11:47 -0700 Received: from localhost (les@localhost)j373Blqd003589; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:11:47 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: argon.ess.washington.edu: les owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:11:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Leslie To: Joshua Lewis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UWESS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact UWESS computing for more information X-UWESS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: les@ess.washington.edu cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Mounting an iPod as an external HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:11:53 -0000 log in as root on the console, and plug it in. if you are using 5.x with devfs, it will be immediately recognized and the system will print the correct device name (/dev/) out to the console. i haven't mounted one myself, but a friend of mine plugged his in to one of my boxes, to charge it, and the system immediately recognized it as a hard drive. it should mount just like any other device. oh yeah, and make sure usbd is enabled and running. (i don't know enough to say if compiling the drivers into the kernel will take care of this). -- les On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Joshua Lewis wrote: > Hello list, > > How do I mount a USB external drive? I know how to mount other devices but > I don't know how to mount a USB device. > > I have an iPod that I have been using as an external backup drive for my > PC and MAC. I was wondering how I would mount the iPod on my FreeBSD > system so I can move my TLS certificates off of it on to my production > mail server. > > I would be using USB 2.0 and it is the only USB device. I believe the iPod > has two slices. One slice for the iPod OS and one slice for my data. I > have a custom kernel with OHCI and UHCI USB controllers compiled in as > well as the md, da, and sa drivers compiled in. If I missed anything in > the compile I can recompile the kernel tonight. > > Thanks for any advice in advance. > > Joshua Lewis > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- R. "les" Leslie Seismic Systems Technologist Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences (206) 543-8276 les@ess.washington.edu www.pnsn.org