Newbie: mounting USB flash drive failure
Hi, I have just joined this mailing list, after installing OpenBSD on my machine and starting an effort to eventually migrate from Linux (for various reasons). I am very pleased with the available documentation in OpenBSD but I could not resolve the following issue: I have a USB flash drive with an MSDOS file system, on which I have a lot of files which will have to be copied to the OpenBSD disk. I tried mounting the flash drive according to the instructions in the FAQ, but after issuing the mount command the red LED on the USB FD goes off and after a while mount gives me the error message: mount_msdos: /dev/sd8i on /mnt/flash: Input/output error The flash drive work well in Linux, mount and read/write. My thanks in advance. Regards Neoklis - Ham Radio Call 5B4AZ QTH Locator KM64KR Website: http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/
Re: Newbie: mounting USB flash drive failure
Hi. Neoklis Kyriazis wrote: > For a hardware type question a dmesg is expected. Maybe usbdevs(8) also. Also here (sysutils/usbutil): http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=131385903423582&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=120133490229421&w=2 I'm no expert. I do know that one of my USB drives that used to work on OpenBSD fine has got flakey to the point where it doesn't any more. Windows still deals with it fine. If it's as simple as that get another one. Best wishes.
Re: Newbie: mounting USB flash drive failure
--- On Tue, 11/29/11, David Walker wrote: > From: David Walker > Subject: Re: Newbie: mounting USB flash drive failure > To: misc@openbsd.org > Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 6:25 PM > For a hardware type question a dmesg is expected. > Thanks, I will remember that next time, if any... > I'm no expert. I do know that one of my USB drives that > used to work > on OpenBSD fine has got flakey to the point where it > doesn't any more. > Windows still deals with it fine. > If it's as simple as that get another one. Amazing! It worked, you are right! This is one more hardware issue that OpenBSD seems to bring up. My RTL8187 WIFI adapter only works in Linux if I specifically limit the bit rate to 1Mb, as I share my neighbor's ISP via his wireless modem. The signal is weak and the Linux driver does not automatically adjust the bit rate to work with the available signal/noise ratio. No problem in OpenBSD, worked out of the box even during installation. My thanks for the responses to this posting. Regards Neoklis - Ham Radio Call 5B4AZ QTH Locator KM64KR Website: http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/
