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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:57:45 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mounting SD card.
Message-ID:  <CAGwOe2Y1FhCWM7=3EFj%2BLOYt2o1eDFMY0_yaBJbod6grTovV1A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211141904580.57127@wonkity.com>
References:  <CAGwOe2bDa2rYpVie3L_E-6=d%2B9uKkoeOHJE9bboAivM5X5rWhw@mail.gmail.com> <201211142058.18913.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211141904580.57127@wonkity.com>

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Mike Clarke wrote:
>
>> 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 b=
e
>> 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
>>
>> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/2121=
09.html>
>
>
> true > /dev/da0

That doesn't work for me, but the dd operation does. What can be the differ=
ence?

>
> is a little shorter and safer.  The search keywords for this are "GEOM
> retaste" or "retasting".
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