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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to mount my microSD ?
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:26:02 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> <<
> 
> Is such a driver available for FreeBSD (or at least for Linux)?
> 
>  >>
> 
> No, AFAIK. But I do wish ...

There are probably alternatives, such as using MTP, and as I said:
There are several settings that you need to check in the device itself.
The key procedures are:

a) enable regular USB direct access storage - will then work as expected

b) enable MTP USB storage - use corresponding tools

I can't imagine that smartphone vendors make it artificially hard to
access USB storage to a point where they require proprietary programs
and drivers... but you never know; I don't trust those shaving mirrors
any further than I can throw them. ;-)

Maybe this can help:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2012-November/020801.html

I wasn't able to locate the mentioned section in the current version
of the handbook. :-(

Also check The FreeBSD Forum (the web forum) for posts regarding how
to mount a smartphone, this will probably be helpful. As I mentioned,
there are also MTP-related tools for FUSE (sysutils/fusefs-simple-mtpfs)
which might actually work as intended.



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...