Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:30:32 -0500 From: Dan Olson <danolson@visi.com> To: Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting USB-stick Message-ID: <426BAD88.5000402@visi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050424081908.44afdf58.fbusse@gmx.de> References: <20050423214149.7e0afbd7.fbusse@gmx.de> <1114298761.7355.19.camel@chaucer> <20050424081908.44afdf58.fbusse@gmx.de>
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Fridtjof Busse wrote:
> * Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>:
>
>>>Now I have /dev/da0, but no /dev/da0s1.
>>>No matter what I try with camcontrol, I don't get da0s1.
>>>By accident I found out that after I mount /dev/da0 (which of course
>>>doesn't give me any files on the stick) and umount it, I get /dev/
>>>da0s1. What's going on/wrong and how can I fix it? I don't need
>>>amd, so I'd be happy about a simple solution, if there's any.
>>>Thanks! :)
>>
>>Run fdisk on the drive, and see where the partitions are. I have
>>found cases where the fourth partition holds the data, and you can
>>mount it with 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt'. Running fdisk with
>>no parameters won't do any damage - but see below.
>>
>>In other cases of trouble, try 'camcontrol devlist' to get a list of
>>which device numbers have been assigned. It isn't always da0.
>
>
> As I've already written: da0s1 is correct, but it only appears if I run
> 'mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt && umount /mnt' before.
> Otherwise there's only /dev/da0, nothing else. Then I can mount
> /dev/da0s1.
> I'd just like to know how I can mount da0s1 without having to mount the
> device itself first. The partition is there and works fine under Linux
> and FreeBSD, but FreeBSD doesn't "see" it at first. camcontrol lists the
> device as soon as I plug it in ('scbus 1 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0)'),
> but da0s1 won't appear before I use the above "workaround".
>
For me to get da0s1 to appear I use the command:
cat /dev/null > /dev/da0
I think there is a timing issue with my device, a Kingston Elite.
Dan Olson
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