From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 18:57:50 2008 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 DD7151065671 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 18:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from jedburgh.just4dns.com (jedburgh.just4dns.com [78.129.134.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4188FC1F for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 18:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from [86.153.243.228] (helo=movens.plus.com) by jedburgh.just4dns.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K1Qpy-0007Gd-8C for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:26 +0100 Received: from [10.10.1.4] (redshift [10.10.1.4]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636911CCAE for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:39 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <483DAB21.3090909@magichamster.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:37 +0100 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080524) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <483DA3FA.9030404@magichamster.com> <483DA683.1020705@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <483DA683.1020705@telenix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 1K1Qpy-0007Gd-8C X-Fuzioned-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-From: parish@magichamster.com X-Spam-Status: No X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - jedburgh.just4dns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - magichamster.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: External USB disk won't mount 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, 28 May 2008 18:57:50 -0000 Chuck Robey wrote: > I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with > him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he > plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets his usb > buss, just to experiment and see if that got his devices correctly detected, but > he didn't yet reply, I don't know if it worked for him. I don't have something > like that to experiment with. > > With yours, you obviously have a da2 ... that only means you have a > direct-access disk devide #2 being detected. The next step is to figure oout > what kind of formatting you have. Hopefully, it's been fdisk'ed to where it has > partitions, so do this (as root): "/sbin/fdisk /dev/da2", and in fdisk, give the > 'p' command, this will print out the formatting for any partitions. Likely it's > either one of the various Microsoft things, or a Linux one, or even a FreeBSD > one. Depending on what you see, you either directly give a mount command next, > to the right partition, or maybe you use bsdlable to find out what the > disk-labelling is (if it's a FreeBSD disk). > Hi Chuck, The next line in my post after where you snipped was: (The disk is from another FreeBSD system so is UFS2 and da2s1f is /usr on the other system) It contains a running FBSD 7.0 system - it's out of a spare box I was using for testing and it mounts/reads/writes fine using the other USB enclosure I borrowed. There's just something screwy about the enclosure I've bought (typical eh?) Regards, Mark