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Date:      Wed, 28 May 2008 21:22:27 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Mark Ovens <parish@magichamster.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: External USB disk won't mount
Message-ID:  <20080528192227.GB78305@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <483DA3FA.9030404@magichamster.com>
References:  <483DA3FA.9030404@magichamster.com>

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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:27:06PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD.
>=20
> Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE:
>=20
> umass0: Super Top USB 2.0  IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2
> da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da2: <MAXTOR 6 L040J2 \0000\0000> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da2: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da2: 38172MB (78177792 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4866C)
>=20
> # mount /dev/da2s1f /mnt
> # ls /mnt
> #
>=20
> (The disk is from another FreeBSD system so is UFS2 and da2s1f is /usr on=
=20
> the other system)
>=20
> So although it mounts, nothing is visible.

You could try using the atausb driver instead of umass. Unfortunately it
doesn't have a manpage yet, but you have to unload umass if you want to
use atausb.

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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