From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 20:58:24 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 4B61AD6A for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:58:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982D68FC08 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id PYyK1k006516WCc01YyMMC; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:58:21 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=CJiorGXD c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=-xSEaY_UsmsA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=eNfA_t99I5tn724ycsIA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=hRzl48OXmVwA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1TYk2N-0002h7-42 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:58:19 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:58:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201211142058.18913.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Subject: Re: Mounting SD card. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:58:24 -0000 On Wednesday 14 November 2012 19:43:30 Fernando Apestegu=EDa wrote: > If I boot the system and plug the SD card in, the green led > doesn't even switch on and there is only a /dev/da0 that I can not > mount. If I boot the system with the card plugged in, the green led is > on and there is a /dev/da0s1 device that I can't still mount because > mount_msdosfs returns an Input/Output error after some time. I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be=20 to "wake" it up with the following incantation: dd if=3D/dev/null of=3D/dev/da0 count=3D0 That's what works here. See the thread starting with=20 =2D-=20 Mike Clarke