From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 25 09:57:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5655F16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E28B43D49 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id hBPHvpgm014709; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:57:51 +0200 Message-Id: <200312251757.hBPHvpgm014709@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 25 Dec 03 19:57:51 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 25 Dec 03 19:57:24 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Olga Zenkova Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:57:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20031223141950.89611.qmail@web9603.mail.yahoo.com> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apacer USB Flash drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 17:57:54 -0000 Hi! > Can't mount Apacer USB Flash drive in FreeBSD 4.8. > When I do: > > mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt > > I get: > > msdos: /dev/da0s1: Input/output error When you plug in the drive, is it recognized by the OS? It should print some lines to the console and to /var/log/messages. Also, some USB flash drives seem to be just quirky. I have something called Travelling Disk, and attempts to mount it can fail 10 times in a row and succeed 11th time (admittedly, this is with a year-old 4.7-STABLE system). Go figure... -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Windws is ine for bckgroun comunicaions - Bll Gats, 192