Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:25:07 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device? Message-ID: <49DD78A3.9060703@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <200904090406.n3946Rsc076562@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <49DD7091.3080900@rawbw.com> <200904090406.n3946Rsc076562@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole wrote: > Just a wild guess, but shouldn't you create slices first? > > Then create the filesystem on /dev/da0s1 > > Bests, > > Olivier > This as a must in the past. But now I always format, for example flash disks, without slices. And both Windows and FreeBSD have no problem. And I think /dev/da0 for US enclosure actually should be a block device like all disks. I think this is a bug. Yuri
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