From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 19:09:59 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 0F3C01065678 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:09:59 +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 747C58FC19 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:09:58 +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 1K1R1p-0008WU-Nk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 20:09:42 +0100 Received: from [10.10.1.4] (redshift [10.10.1.4]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074561CC85 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 20:09:55 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <483DAE00.80300@magichamster.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 20:09:52 +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> <483DAB21.3090909@magichamster.com> In-Reply-To: <483DAB21.3090909@magichamster.com> 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: 1K1R1p-0008WU-Nk 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 19:09:59 -0000 Mark Ovens wrote: > 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?) > Forgot to add the output of fdisk..... /home/mark{104}# /sbin/fdisk /dev/da2 ******* Working on device /dev/da2 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=4866 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=4866 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 78172227 (38170 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: /home/mark{105}# Regards, Mark