From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 16:47:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C01C106564A for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:47:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AB18FC0C for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so3773835ewy.13 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.32.80 with SMTP id b16mr10422216ebd.38.1291222067335; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:47:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.31.209 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:47:26 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brennan Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:47:26 -0500 Message-ID: To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: USB Thumb Drive 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: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:47:50 -0000 I have a need to use a thumb drive on my FBSD8.1/amd64 laptop and when I plugged it in before leaving to make sure I could mount it, I discovered I couldn't. /var/log/messages produced this: Dec 1 11:38:22 blackdragon root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0324 product 0xbc06 bus uhub1 Dec 1 11:38:22 blackdragon kernel: ugen1.3: at usbus1 Dec 1 11:38:22 blackdragon kernel: umass0: on usbus1 Dec 1 11:38:22 blackdragon kernel: umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000 Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2 Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed) Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers Dec 1 11:38:23 blackdragon kernel: da0: 30592MB (62652416 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 3899C) Dec 1 11:38:24 blackdragon kernel: GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary. Dec 1 11:38:24 blackdragon kernel: GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary. Dec 1 11:38:24 blackdragon console-kit-daemon[1135]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed: cannot open /proc/31126/mem Dec 1 11:38:58 blackdragon kernel: GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary. Dec 1 11:38:58 blackdragon kernel: GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary. when I try to mount the device da0 I get [root@BlackDragon [~]# kldload ntfs (just so I can read from the device and copy what I wanted off it) [root@BlackDragon [~]# mount -t ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/thumb mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument [root@BlackDragon [~]# 'uname -a' FreeBSD blackdragon.xaerolimit.net 8.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 #2: Sat Oct 30 02:55:00 EDT 2010 root@blackdragon.xaerolimit.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BlackDragon amd64 usbconfig: ugen1.3: at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON did I miss something? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org