mounting WD external USB disk

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:42:13 -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I have access to a WD MyBook, and I also can not get it to work.
> the error is the same
>
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <WD 1600BB External 0108> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C)
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
> SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
> cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> cd0: <SONY DVD RW AW-Q170A 1.70> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> cd0: 66.000MB/s transfers
> cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> cd1 at ata0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> cd1: <SONY CD-RW  CRX230EE 2YS8> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> cd1: 33.000MB/s transfers
> cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/My Book.
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Cheers,
Mezz

> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
> bridge0: Ethernet address: 52:2a:c4:5a:c0:d0
> tap0: Ethernet address: 00:bd:7d:42:00:00
> tap0: promiscuous mode enabled
> fuse4bsd: version 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.8
> pid 1418 (hald), uid 560: exited on signal 11
>
> has anyone ever used a larger mybook on FreeBSD
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.


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