How to mount USB drive in FreeBSD 5.0?

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:13 pm, Frank Lee wrote:
> On Sunday 28 September 2003 20:57, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> > It doesn't even look like your usb drive is plugged in? Even if
> > umass hadn't accepted it, ugen should have had attached (outputting
> > some messages)
>
> ughh..... well, it helps to plug it *all the way* in. :-( It's new
> and I didn't want break it...
>
> The message I get is:
> umass0: Cypress Semiconductor USB2.0 Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01,
> addr 2 umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
>
> The system just halts there...

I find that FreeBSD gets really confused if you have a msdos formatted 
zip in the zip drive when you boot.

Kent

>
> If I turn it (usb drive) off or unplug it, a bunch of other messages
> scroll up and it tells me that it's going to reboot...
>
> > [assuming that umass hat attached to the usb drive]
> > There should be a new device node daX[sY] in /dev, which you should
> > mount.
> > mount -t msdos /dev/da0* /mnt/usb
> >
> > * Can't remember whether one needed to specify a slice
>
> Since it stops at the "umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)"
> message, there's no /dev/da0* :
>
> # ls -l /dev/d*
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  173,   0 Sep 29 05:41 /dev/devctl
> #
>
> Is there a way to have FreeBSD dumb it (usb drive) down to 1.1? The
> box says it (usb drive) supports 1.1 and 2.0). My laptop is only 1.1.

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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