From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 10:18:01 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 E8D48106567A for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 10:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cb@lim.nl) Received: from lim.nl (78-40-197-2.dsl.alice.nl [78.40.197.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72468FC14 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 10:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cb@lim.nl) Received: by venus (Postfix, from userid 80) id 457F65C1E; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:17:57 +0200 (CEST) To: Roland Smith MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 12:17:57 +0200 From: Colin Brace In-Reply-To: <20080531094221.GA81037@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <25515aa06ecb67b43d2a517bcceed88f@localhost> <20080531072955.GA76694@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <79defaf7e7f012e2cd5c6381d84dccb9@localhost> <20080531094221.GA81037@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <19839aceb10de69024c9fae933836067@localhost> X-Sender: cb@lim.nl User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 10:18:02 -0000 On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:42:21 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystems on > the partitions with newfs? Ah, no. According to Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd ed, which I have in front of me, newfs invoked by sysinstall, which I used to create the slice and partition it (p 241). Anyway, I now try running newfs in terminal, but it throws up some errrors: # newfs /dev/da0s1c /dev/da0s1c: 194474.3MB (398283416 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 1059 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 160: Invalid argument # newfs /dev/da0s1c /dev/da0s1c: 194474.3MB (398283416 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 1059 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976, 3387328, 3763680, 4140032,newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 4516384: Invalid argument I tried it several times; the errors seem kinda random, since they vary each time I run the command. Could it be that the chipset of this USB device, JMicron, is not entirely supported by FreeBSD? The reason I ask is because this appears to be an issue under Linux; cf, http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3751 Yes, I am well aware it is a different OS (!); I only mention it in case there is overlap in the codebase for this particular chipset. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl