From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 12:51:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CBA144E9 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96F03376 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-33.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.33]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s9QCp858029450 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:51:09 -0500 Message-ID: <544CEFB4.9020301@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:57:24 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: problems trying to mount SDHC card .... References: <544C34A2.1070806@hiwaay.net> <20141026052929.ef41a037.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20141026052929.ef41a037.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:51:10 -0000 On 10/25/14 23:29, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:39:14 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> .... I am trying to mount some SDHC cards through a USB reader >> (Transcend USB 2.0) with an eye towards using them to create bootable >> drives for a Raspberry Pi B+. > In that case, you probably won't have anything to do > with mounting the SD card (especially not as a MS-DOS > file system). The thing you're going to do here probably > isn't much more than "dd if=pi.img of=/dev/da0", and > Xfce is not able to help here. When the image has been > written, there's probably a file system different from > FAT on the card. > > > >> When I try to view the drive through >> XFCE's 'flash File Manager' (from top toolbar) it pops up an error >> dialog saying: >> >> mount_msdosfs: can't find or load "msdos_iconv" kernel module >> mount_msdosfs: msdos_iconv: operation not permitted. > Is the card currently formatted? What does > > # fdisk da0 > > say (if /dev/da0 is the SD card reader)? Or with today's > tools, > > # gpart show da0 > > Also check the dmesg entries in relation to the card reader. > Anything suspicious? > > In case the card is formatted with FAT, can you _manually_ > mount it? > > > >> I am doing this as an ordinary user, something in fstab or amd.conf ? > I'm surprised you get any reaction at all. I never got > automounting to work with Xfce... > > If you have the automounting stuff via HAL and DBUS, > your /etc/fstab won't probably have an entry for the > SD card reader, and /etc/amd.conf is probably totally > out of scope here. Maybe this is an expression of the > growing incompatibilities between Linux (where Xfce > has been created for) and FreeBSD? > > I'm a bit surprised about the "msdos_iconv" kernel > module, which should be present. Can you manually > load it, maybe via /boot/loader.conf? > > > I manually loaded the module w/ kldload & now I get a nw message from XFCE: Cannot mount volume mount_msdosfs: msdos_iconv: operation not permitted Oh well, as long as I can work w/ the device directly, that's what I will need anyway .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.