From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 25 20:40:51 2004 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 9601C16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85A4143D55 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dhrider@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x71so170535cwb for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.98.56 with SMTP id v56mr847130cwb; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:31:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <89ceee7040625133146d9107@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:31:55 -0700 From: Dan Finn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: can't mount 300G USB drive that's FAT32 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: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:40:51 -0000 the system sees the disk: Jun 24 15:37:30 stewie kernel: umass0: Maxtor OneTouch, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 Jun 24 15:37:30 stewie kernel: umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED) Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc2d85050 Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0: 286103MB (585938944 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36473C) this is a Maxtor 300G USB drive. A backup was written to it via a linux 2.4 server and now I would like to mount it on my FBSD laptop to read it and work with the files. When trying to mount it using mount_msdos I get the following: [ root @ stewie : ~] : mount_msdosfs -o rw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb1/ mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument and in /var/log/messages I get the following: Jun 24 15:43:52 stewie kernel: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry when trying to use ntfs to mount it I get : [ root @ stewie : ~] : mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb1/ mount_ntfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument and nothing in any log file. One of the taks I need to accomplish here is to copy all of the data on this 300G USB drive onto an identical 300G USB drive. I was going to mount both and just copy from one to the other. After reading about the limited writing capabilities in the man page of mount_ntfs I'm wondering if I would be better off doing this on a linux box. The linux box that created the origional backup onto the USB drive had no problem creating the Fat32 filesystem and writing to it. Any ideas?