Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:02:18 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Trix Farrar <trix@basement.net> Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? Message-ID: <4760060A.2000205@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net> <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com>
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On 12/12/2007 7:50 AM Patrick Baldwin said the following: > Trix Farrar wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: >>> Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a >>> FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, >>> but: >>> >>> webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive >>> mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block >>> >> >> It's probably formatted msdosfs. Have you tried: >> >> webmail# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive >> > > No, I hadn't, but that doesn't seem to work either: > > mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument > > webmail# dmesg > umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2 > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <WD 1600BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers > da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C) > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry Just a guess here but it's likely the drive was formatted as NTFS instead of FAT-32 if it's a recent drive. Try mount_ntfs. HTH, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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