Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:10:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: parish@magichamster.com (Mark Ovens) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: External USB disk won't mount Message-ID: <200805281910.m4SJABfR087651@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> In-Reply-To: <483DAB21.3090909@magichamster.com>
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> > 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?) > Sounds like issues I had with a USB stick that I had from a 5.4 system and tried to put onto a 7.0 system. (Posted in freebsd-current early April.)I had data integrity issues, couldn't re-format it on the new system, would mount but as soon as I used it the kernel would panic, etc. Bring it back to the 5.4 system, things were peachy. Tuc
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