usb identity issue

[Chris Hill]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Al Plant wrote:

> I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on 
> FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 
> boxes for testing here at my shop.
>
> Can anyone point me to any articles on this issue.
>
> Is there a command like usbconfig (saw this mentioned in an email 
> question but it doesnt work) to bring this up on screen?

I don't know of any articles, but here is what I do:

$ uname -r
8.0-STABLE
$ ls /dev | grep ^da
$

(note that there is nothing found) ...and then plug in the thumb drive 
and do it again:

$ ls /dev | grep ^da
da0
da0s1
$

...and now I can mount it. Since this drive is a FAT32 filesystem, I use 
mount_msdosfs. Having an entry in /etc/fstab is a convenience but not 
strictly necessary.

> Dmesg of the booted units shows da1 mostly but this identity cant be 
> accessed on any of them.

After pluggin in my thumb drive, my dmesg shows

da0: <SanDisk Cruzer 1.02> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 7629MB (15625216 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 972C)

Note that while dmesg only shows da0, my `ls /dev` also shows da0s1. You 
may need to use /dev/da1s1 or similar (depending on what you see from 
`ls /dev`) in your mount command. Try a few permutations.

HTH, and maika'i pomaika'i.


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