Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:48:03 -0400 From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@nc.rr.com> To: 3BSD <assadbsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I mount a USB hard drive? Message-ID: <1090198083.3260.11.camel@fast.mmercer.com> In-Reply-To: <f864608004071816267581ccc6@mail.gmail.com> References: <1090182542.3260.4.camel@fast.mmercer.com> <f864608004071816267581ccc6@mail.gmail.com>
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Its a FreeBSD partition from another box. However the drive itself is not showing up when I do a "usbdevs -d -v". This is the problem I am having. I know how to mount and all that stuff, just not exactly what I need to do to get FreeBSD to see the drive itself. Thanks Michael FreeBSD questionsFreeBSD questionsOn Sun, 2004-07-18 at 19:26, 3BSD wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:29:03 -0400, Michael E. Mercer <mmercer@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I had a hard drive (8 Gig) sitting around and thought I would try the > > new USB 2.0 hard drive kits. It works just fine in Winblows but I am > > unable to get it to show up under FreeBSD. > > > > 4.10-Stable > > > > kernel conf file below... > <snip> > > You need to provide some additional information. > > 1. What filesystem has the drive been formatted with? If its NTFS, I > suggest you re-format the drive using FAT32 because you don't have > NTFS support in your kernel config, and even if you did, the drive > will not be of much use to you in FreeBSD as NTFS support is not all > that great. > > 2. What's the mount command you're using to mount the drive? I use the > following to mount my external USB2 drive: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ext > > And it works perfectly with both USB and FireWire, better under > FireWire, if you ask me. ;-) > > -Assad > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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