Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:50:27 -0500 From: Patrick Baldwin <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> To: Trix Farrar <trix@basement.net>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? Message-ID: <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net> References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net>
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Trix Farrar wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: >> Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a >> FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, >> but: >> >> webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive >> mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block >> > > It's probably formatted msdosfs. Have you tried: > > webmail# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive > No, I hadn't, but that doesn't seem to work either: mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument webmail# dmesg umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <WD 1600BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C) mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry
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