From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 12:29:39 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 E54BC106564A for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:29:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44D98FC26 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:29:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([202.69.173.22]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:29:39 -0700 Message-ID: <4BD97BAF.8080002@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:29:35 +0800 From: Fbsd1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Apr 2010 12:29:40.0227 (UTC) FILETIME=[A37A7530:01CAE797] X-Sender: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Subject: How To create msdosfs on HD? 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: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:29:40 -0000 I have an old IDE 3.5 hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it for USB disk space on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable. It will work with 2.5 & 3.5 IDE drives and sata drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5 IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in system/devices/hard drives as there but windows explorer does not assign a drive letter for it. I'm thinking this is because the hard drive has UFS format and maybe it I reformat it to fat format xp will assign a drive letter to it. I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs?