trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

[Andrew Gould]

> From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:42:15 PM
> Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
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> ajm wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
> >> Andrew Gould wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> > 
> > this is from a previous message in the thread:
> >> attempt:  mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> > 
> > try as root or su to root
> > 
> > # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> 
> Interestingly enough I tried out these steps as root to see if I could
> resimulate this with my camera and I ended up with the same results.
> Only by trying to mount the camera as root could I succeed.
> 
> Does anyone have a FAT16/FAT32 drive properly mounting under FreeBSD as
> a non-root user? If so, did you modify /dev, /etc/devfs.conf, or are you
> using amd(8)?
> 
> - -Garrett

I tried mounting the partition as root.  It didn't work.  I think I'll install an older version of FreeBSD somewhere and see if the problem is isolated to 6.2.

Andrew