From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 04:25:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CF4106566B for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell.rawbw.com (shell.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950318FC0A for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (ppp-71-139-21-14.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [71.139.21.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.rawbw.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n394P8iX027924; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49DD78A3.9060703@rawbw.com> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:25:07 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090322) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <49DD7091.3080900@rawbw.com> <200904090406.n3946Rsc076562@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200904090406.n3946Rsc076562@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:25:24 -0000 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