From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 07:30:03 2008 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 5526D1065672 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 07:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC4E8FC16 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 07:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4V7TtIQ053696; Sat, 31 May 2008 09:29:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A5B70BA97; Sat, 31 May 2008 09:29:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:29:55 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Colin Brace Message-ID: <20080531072955.GA76694@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Colin Brace , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <25515aa06ecb67b43d2a517bcceed88f@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <25515aa06ecb67b43d2a517bcceed88f@localhost> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 07:30:03 -0000 --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > I am having difficulties mounting a USB drive under 7.0-STABLE. Running > sysinstall, I can create a partition and format it. But sysinstall is > unable to mount it: >=20 > Error mounting /dev/da0s1d on /media/disk6 : Invalid argument >=20 > The same error ocurrs when I try to mount it manually on the command line. > I have tried various mount points, to no avail.=20 >=20 > Anyone have any ideas what is going wrong? Can you show us what is shown in the dmesg output when you plug this drive in, which devices are then created and the exact command that you used to mount it? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhA/nMACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVShwCdEhrNjkrNfB+WlmalY314ghMR sUwAn29P7bPKSMEV0k1ovxq3ijELibbE =Zovb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC--