From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Jul 11 09:41:36 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A19816A468
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:41:36 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org)
Received: from szalbot.homedns.org (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B768413C43E
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:41:35 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org)
Received: from www by szalbot.homedns.org with local (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD))
	(envelope-from <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>)
	id 1I8YhN-0000UQ-7n; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:41:29 +0200
To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
X-PHP-Script: https://poczta.szalbot.homedns.org/index.php for 192.168.11.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:41:29 +0200
From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4694A38E.7010003@otenet.gr>
References: <4694A38E.7010003@otenet.gr>
Message-ID: <0f03603370f42684f596dd418521724d@szalbot.homedns.org>
X-Sender: zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org
User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Cc: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:41:36 -0000


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