External USB disk won't mount

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Wed May 28 19:22:30 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:27:06PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD.
> 
> Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE:
> 
> umass0: Super Top USB 2.0  IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2
> da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da2: <MAXTOR 6 L040J2 \0000\0000> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da2: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da2: 38172MB (78177792 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4866C)
> 
> # mount /dev/da2s1f /mnt
> # ls /mnt
> #
> 
> (The disk is from another FreeBSD system so is UFS2 and da2s1f is /usr on 
> the other system)
> 
> So although it mounts, nothing is visible.

You could try using the atausb driver instead of umass. Unfortunately it
doesn't have a manpage yet, but you have to unload umass if you want to
use atausb.

Roland
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