From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 18 15:37:18 2009 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 5B9EB106566C for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:37:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndhert@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70268FC13 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p33so212647gvf.39 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:37:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=YYCOrMEEGBtZW5jFIKd+2ELB0k0ZZwoGXhBhsPqbZg0=; b=eLUcM0pbuIUs8TVO8jCSJF5jWY5X67T8TDky8owMzkoeKyT/jhtLBtZlHYPtUwVCKN 0+hwRYwgHcUWVZKHWQnz7XJRhPFQKusyj6Vu9qQt/5S5+0nmkzLqacXNuAMJWDqPub38 XoEfZeV6Cl5UD+iNVuzQTmYrZh0R1SkP7MktQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=jXTq+JKRI5booVixMt3ScRX9QjtimD2PWjZDILaLmtfhMQtBbIEpjGi2Is0joOVjjo 5X9uLLW9DxOEfcGWher0pkEy4LROLRIity+WoNyu4Nxzn/RCz8jagUHaCFyJkrj2yFG+ NG5Ny8pSvBAbzxl0wvtDXAVy42A0rHwE4wPRs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.91.15 with SMTP id g15mr1028797wef.24.1258557392913; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:16:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:16:32 +0100 Message-ID: <8021a2660911180716h160765a9j82fa0c3065ecf2b@mail.gmail.com> From: n dhert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: adding USB hard-disk 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, 18 Nov 2009 15:37:18 -0000 I have an external USB hard disk, wich already has unix dirs and files on it. When plugging into a OpenSuse10.3, the dirs and files are immediatly available under /media/disk-1 as unix dirs and files. When plugging into a FreeBSD7.2 system: on console I do get the messages: umass0: on uhub4 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 286168MB (586072368 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36481C) # camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) # ls -la /dev | grep da crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 113 Nov 18 14:40 da0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 117 Nov 18 14:40 da0s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 118 Nov 18 14:40 da0s2 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 119 Nov 18 14:40 da0s3 but # mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt takes a while (drive spins), then mount: /dev/da0s1 : Invalid argument same result for all slices Why is this and how to remedy? (I can mount an USB memory stick with mount -t msdosfs -o -m=644,-M=755 /dev/da0s1 /mnt)