From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 14:18:06 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 1556516A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A74F43F93 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbstep@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from 2416462hfc204.tampabay.rr.com (2416462hfc204.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.62.204])h88LI2kY007115 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:18:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Stephens To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:12:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200309080805.h8885RT13026@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <200309080805.h8885RT13026@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Setup: KDE 3.1.3/FreeBSD 4.8R MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309081712.59846.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: USB stick 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 21:18:06 -0000 On Monday 08 September 2003 04:05 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt > msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument This is speaking from Linux experience, as I do not have my USB CF card reader working under FBSD yet, but you probably need to mount a slice and/or partition rather than the device itself. Under Linux, my card reader was detected as /dev/hdb0, but to mount it I had to mount /dev/hdb1, being the first partition of device hdb0. You'll probably need to mount /dev/da0s1a or something along those lines. This is just a guess on my part, though. -- Todd Stephens