From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 19:10:28 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 E240F1065674 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:10:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::5e5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6111B8FC24 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:10:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (cpe-24-161-6-139.hvc.res.rr.com [24.161.6.139]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4SJAGWr050324; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:10:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m4SJABba087652; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:10:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id m4SJABfR087651; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:10:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200805281910.m4SJABfR087651@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: parish@magichamster.com (Mark Ovens) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:10:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <483DAB21.3090909@magichamster.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 19:10:29 -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?) > 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