Mounting Western Digital USB drive?
Patrick Baldwin
Patrick.Baldwin at studsvik.com
Wed Dec 12 07:40:20 PST 2007
Trix Farrar wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>> Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a
>> FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple,
>> but:
>>
>> webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
>> mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block
>>
>
> It's probably formatted msdosfs. Have you tried:
>
> webmail# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
>
No, I hadn't, but that doesn't seem to work either:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument
webmail# dmesg
umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <WD 1600BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C)
mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry
mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry
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