From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 04:29:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9993B249 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 04:29:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D270771 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 04:29:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-83-129.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.83.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44C903CD3E; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:29:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s9Q4TTFH001938; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:29:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:29:29 +0100 From: Polytropon To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Subject: Re: problems trying to mount SDHC card .... Message-Id: <20141026052929.ef41a037.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <544C34A2.1070806@hiwaay.net> References: <544C34A2.1070806@hiwaay.net> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 04:29:38 -0000 On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:39:14 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > .... I am trying to mount some SDHC cards through a USB reader > (Transcend USB 2.0) with an eye towards using them to create bootable > drives for a Raspberry Pi B+. In that case, you probably won't have anything to do with mounting the SD card (especially not as a MS-DOS file system). The thing you're going to do here probably isn't much more than "dd if=pi.img of=/dev/da0", and Xfce is not able to help here. When the image has been written, there's probably a file system different from FAT on the card. > When I try to view the drive through > XFCE's 'flash File Manager' (from top toolbar) it pops up an error > dialog saying: > > mount_msdosfs: can't find or load "msdos_iconv" kernel module > mount_msdosfs: msdos_iconv: operation not permitted. Is the card currently formatted? What does # fdisk da0 say (if /dev/da0 is the SD card reader)? Or with today's tools, # gpart show da0 Also check the dmesg entries in relation to the card reader. Anything suspicious? In case the card is formatted with FAT, can you _manually_ mount it? > I am doing this as an ordinary user, something in fstab or amd.conf ? I'm surprised you get any reaction at all. I never got automounting to work with Xfce... If you have the automounting stuff via HAL and DBUS, your /etc/fstab won't probably have an entry for the SD card reader, and /etc/amd.conf is probably totally out of scope here. Maybe this is an expression of the growing incompatibilities between Linux (where Xfce has been created for) and FreeBSD? I'm a bit surprised about the "msdos_iconv" kernel module, which should be present. Can you manually load it, maybe via /boot/loader.conf? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...