Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:43:48 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: aminoff@nber.org Cc: freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB thumb drive does not newfs under FreeBSD 7.0 (but does under 6.2) Message-ID: <20080821.094348.1257475537.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20080821144826.GD13934@perlw2.nber.org> References: <20080821144826.GD13934@perlw2.nber.org>
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Alex Aminoff <aminoff@nber.org> writes:
:
:
: We seem to have a USB thumb drive that works under FreeBSD 6.2 but
: does not newfs under 7.0. We hope that there is some package or
: library we have failed to upgrade. Any advice on how to proceed to
: resolve this would be greatly appreciated. If this is the wrong place
: to ask, please point us to the correct place.
:
: The versions of FreeBSD in question are
:
: 6.2-RELEASE-p9
: vs
: 7.0-RELEASE-p2
:
: both are generic kernels. It is the same hardware booted to one or the
: other OS.
:
: dmesg says:
:
: da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
: da1: <USB 2.0 USB Flash Drive 1100> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
: da1: 1.000MB/s transfers
: da1: 15424MB (31588352 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1966C)
:
: # fdisk -I /dev/da1
:
: succeeds on both OSs
:
: # newfs /dev/da1s1
:
: On 6.2, this succeeds, and we can mount
: and use the filesystem. On 7.0, newfs dies with
:
: cg 0: bad magic number
:
: Some searching on that error string turns up stuff about needing to
: reserve space at the beginning of a disk for the partition table. We
: have tried adjusting the parameters of the slice with fdisk with no
: success. In any case it seems strange that this would happen under 7
: but not 6.2.
Does something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1s1 bs=1m" work?
Warner
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