Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
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

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi there again, Thank you for your answer. I do have da0s1 but mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument Also, it is not a flash drive, it is an external USB drive with IDE hd in it (80 GB). I will skip formatti

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there again, >> Thank you for your answer. I do have da0s1 but >> mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument >> >> Also, it is not a flash drive, it is an external USB drive with IDE hd > in >> it (80 GB). >> >> I will skip formatting as I can see you

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > >>> I created /mnt/usbck and would like to mount it there, then format it as >>> >> it >> >>> uses msdos file system (FAT). >>> >>> How do I determine the name of the drive is my first problem. It is not >>> da0, it is? What is the command to ch

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, >> I created /mnt/usbck and would like to mount it there, then format it as > it >> uses msdos file system (FAT). >> >> How do I determine the name of the drive is my first problem. It is not >> da0, it is? What is the command to check it? I mean I think it is not > da0 >> because da0 time

Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > I have kernel compiled with USB support and I plugged in a USB drive: > messages show this information: > > Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: umass0: Myson Century, Inc. USB Mass Storage > Device, rev 2.00/b0.07, addr 2 > Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: da0 at umass-s

finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I have kernel compiled with USB support and I plugged in a USB drive: messages show this information: Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: umass0: Myson Century, Inc. USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/b0.07, addr 2 Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jul 11 09:48