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Subject: Re: How do I mount a USB hard drive?
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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
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