External USB disk won't mount

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> Thanks Roland, but I can't find atausb in either 6.3 or 7.0 - is it a kld 
> module?

Yes;

$ locate atausb
/usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atausb
/usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atausb/Makefile

(This is on 7-STABLE)

> Presumably, it would not work with other usb mass storage devices like 
> memory sticks or phones?

It should work with all usb mass storage devices, I think. It just seems
to be tied into the ata subsystem instead of into the scsi subsystem via
atapicam.

Roland
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