What do I need in FreeBSD 6.1 OS to be able to read a USB Dane/Electric 256 MB thumb drive?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Friday, September 15, 2006 16:53:25 -0400 ograbme <ograbme at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
> I see no references to umass and/or da0 which I have come across in my
> readings. In the /dev file there are two devices, usb and usb0, so I
> tried mounting each one of these devices separately, but had no luck.
> Obviously I'm missing something here, so any reasonably detailed
> pointers would be appreciated.
>
Are you saying that this is the case when the USB device is plugged in? 
Because normally you should see a /dev/da0 if you have a thumb drive 
plugged in to a USB port.

I mount them like this:
mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb/

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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