Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-02 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
According to Darwin's law, the most fit will survive... if you have the choice of buying 2 usb drivers, one that have fat32 and other that have exfat you, as a normal customer, does not know about the details of fat32, ntfs, ufs, zfs, xfs but you know about price, that is: the one that pays

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 09:45:15AM -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: According to Darwin's law, the most fit will survive... That is a misrepresentation of Darwin's theory. It does not say the 'most fit' will survive. It says that the one that is best able to expoit the environmental

USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Brennan
I have a need to use a thumb drive on my FBSD8.1/amd64 laptop and when I plugged it in before leaving to make sure I could mount it, I discovered I couldn't. /var/log/messages produced this: Dec 1 11:38:22 blackdragon root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0324 product 0xbc06 bus uhub1 Dec 1

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:47:26 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: did I miss something? Is it partitioned? Try ls /dev/da0* to see if there's a /dev/da0s1 entry (for example). If so, try and mount that. To see if there's a filesystem on the disk you can run file -s against the device

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:47:26 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: [r...@blackdragon [~]# kldload ntfs (just so I can read from the device and copy what I wanted off it) [r...@blackdragon [~]# mount -t ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/thumb mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument I think Windows

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:00:00 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:47:26 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: [r...@blackdragon [~]# kldload ntfs (just so I can read from the device and copy what I wanted off it) [r...@blackdragon [~]# mount -t

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:10:25PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:00:00 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:47:26 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: [r...@blackdragon [~]# kldload ntfs (just so I can read from the device and

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:00:00 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:47:26 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: [r...@blackdragon [~]# kldload ntfs (just so I can read from the device and copy what I wanted

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Brennan
Thanks all for the feedback, problem solved, details below. Bruce - /dev/ad0s1 did the trick ... I was in such a hurry, I forgot to actually look further, I was in a hurry and got impatient :P. file -s /dev/DEVICE is a nice little trick, gonna have to tuck this one away for another rainy day when

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:36:43 -0600 Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz articulated: As the page says, it's READ ONLY in Linux... kinda pathetic. Thanks, Microsoft, for changing things AGAIN so you cannot be shared safely with others. First of all, exFAT is a major improvement over FAT32 for

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 6, Message: 22 On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:59:30 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:36:43 -0600 Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz articulated: As the page says, it's READ ONLY in Linux... kinda pathetic. Thanks,

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Duane Whitty
). When I plug my ipod into my computer, dmesg gets the following addition: umass0: Apple iPod mini, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 However, that's all that appears there relative to it. From google, I found that plugging in an ipod or a usb thumb drive should add a /dev/da0 (or similar) entry to /dev

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
I believe you need this entry in you kernel config file device pass It's in there already. I just didn't know that it was related... :) Thanks, ~Erin -- http://www.tuxgirl.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread luke
try kldstat and see if da.ko is listed. if it isn't, try kldload da the problem is that while the machine see the usb device attached, it hasn't loaded the driver for the disk, hence the absense of anything in dmesg about da0... good luck. oh, the module might not be called da.ko exactly, but it

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
try kldstat and see if da.ko is listed. if it isn't, try kldload da the problem is that while the machine see the usb device attached, it hasn't loaded the driver for the disk, hence the absense of anything in dmesg about da0... good luck. oh, the module might not be called da.ko exactly,

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
I think you're probably getting to the right problem, but I'm still having a few issues. Here's what kldstat shows: [amon-re conf] kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 13 0xc040 63070c kernel 21 0xc0a31000 57c8 snd_ich.ko 32 0xc0a37000 1d408sound.ko 4

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Ian Dowse
of the necessary pieces to allow usb drives). When I plug my ipod into my computer, dmesg gets the following addition: umass0: Apple iPod mini, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 However, that's all that appears there relative to it. From google, I found that plugging in an ipod or a usb thumb drive should add a /dev/da0

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
Unfortunately a number of Apple iPod devices don't work with 6.0 release. FreeBSD sends a command to the device that causes the iPod USB interface to get confused and it stops responding. This was fixed in 6-stable, so you'll need to upgrade or patch the kernel to get it to work. You could

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
no issues with my USB thumb drive, apart from my discovery that if you use usbd.conf to mount it automagically when it's inserted, you can't use usbd.conf to umount it when it's detached ... sort of a chicken/egg issue that makes perfect sense in my more lucid moments. Thanks a ton! ~Erin A ton

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erin Sharmahd writes: Will this help, even though I can't mount any usb thumb drives or anything like that? It's definitely worth a try. People have reported exactly this issue with both recent iPods, and PNY Attache devices. In the case of the iPods, removing the

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
It's definitely worth a try. People have reported exactly this issue with both recent iPods, and PNY Attache devices. In the case of the iPods, removing the stall-clearing code was reported to fix the problem, but I don't know whether it will help with the thumb drive. And, we've got a

I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-10 Thread Erin Sharmahd
into my computer, dmesg gets the following addition: umass0: Apple iPod mini, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 However, that's all that appears there relative to it. From google, I found that plugging in an ipod or a usb thumb drive should add a /dev/da0 (or similar) entry to /dev, which you should mount. I

Finding out which device to mount after plugging in a USB thumb drive

2005-05-11 Thread Juho Vuori
Hello, If I plug in a USB thumb drive, which becomes, say, umass0. Normally something like /dev/da0 will also be created amd slices of that device may be mounted. But is there a API for finding out what is the corresponding block device for umass devices ? The device driver writes

Re: Finding out which device to mount after plugging in a USB thumb drive

2005-05-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Juho Vuori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, If I plug in a USB thumb drive, which becomes, say, umass0. Normally something like /dev/da0 will also be created amd slices of that device may be mounted. But is there a API for finding out what is the corresponding block device for umass