From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 00:40:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C271106564A for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FBB8FC08 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q6O0dw9N012797; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:39:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:39:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: Al Plant In-Reply-To: <500DA7BB.7040208@hdk5.net> Message-ID: References: <500DA7BB.7040208@hdk5.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: usb identity issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:40:05 -0000 On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Al Plant wrote: > I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on > FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 > boxes for testing here at my shop. > > Can anyone point me to any articles on this issue. > > Is there a command like usbconfig (saw this mentioned in an email > question but it doesnt work) to bring this up on screen? I don't know of any articles, but here is what I do: $ uname -r 8.0-STABLE $ ls /dev | grep ^da $ (note that there is nothing found) ...and then plug in the thumb drive and do it again: $ ls /dev | grep ^da da0 da0s1 $ ...and now I can mount it. Since this drive is a FAT32 filesystem, I use mount_msdosfs. Having an entry in /etc/fstab is a convenience but not strictly necessary. > Dmesg of the booted units shows da1 mostly but this identity cant be > accessed on any of them. After pluggin in my thumb drive, my dmesg shows da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 7629MB (15625216 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 972C) Note that while dmesg only shows da0, my `ls /dev` also shows da0s1. You may need to use /dev/da1s1 or similar (depending on what you see from `ls /dev`) in your mount command. Try a few permutations. HTH, and maika'i pomaika'i. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ]