Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:41:29 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting Message-ID: <0f03603370f42684f596dd418521724d@szalbot.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <4694A38E.7010003@otenet.gr> References: <4694A38E.7010003@otenet.gr>
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Dear all, > Yes, external USB disks / flash drives are handled as SCSI by the > kernel, and you are right the da0 is your disk. > Is ls /dev/da0s* showing anything else except da0s1 as a result? I am in > front of my FreeBSD system right now, and I have (a UFS formatted) > external 250Gb disk on it, I can see da0s1d on ls /dev/da0s* > As an afterthought, and maybe dumb question, are you certain the disk is > fat formatted and not someting else (i.e. NTFS)? Apologies for taking up list bandwidth! Of course it was NTFS. I was so pre-occupied with mounting that I forgot about that subtle (!) difference. I am very sorry for bothering you. Warm regards, zbigniew szalbot
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