From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 09:49:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8328B16A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:49:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from harlan@everett.org) Received: from minnie.everett.org (minnie.everett.org [66.220.13.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C32643D4C for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:49:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from harlan@everett.org) Received: from minnie.everett.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.everett.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE08854821 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:49:16 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Harlan Stenn X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:49:16 -0800 Sender: harlan@everett.org Message-Id: <20060227094916.EE08854821@minnie.everett.org> Subject: CF disk problems in 5-STABLE 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: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:49:17 -0000 (Please Cc: me on all replies.) I bought a USB CF reader/writer. When I plug it in, the system sees it as: kernel: umass0: VIA Technologies Inc. USB 2.0 Card Reader, rev 2.00/0.03, addr 2 but no matter what I do the system cannot see the CF disk in the unit. I then tried the same card in an older device: kernel: umass0: mediaGear Transport USB2.0 9 in 1 Reader , rev 2.00/1.28, addr 2 It sees the card just fine. I am able to fdisk the card and slice it up the way I want. (I still need to newfs it, but that's a job for tomorrow.) How difficult will it be to get the VIA dongle to work with FreeBSD? Harlan