problems trying to mount SDHC card ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 10/25/14 23:29, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:39:14 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> .... I am trying to mount some SDHC cards through a USB reader
>> (Transcend USB 2.0) with an eye towards using them to create bootable
>> drives for a Raspberry Pi B+.
> In that case, you probably won't have anything to do
> with mounting the SD card (especially not as a MS-DOS
> file system). The thing you're going to do here probably
> isn't much more than "dd if=pi.img of=/dev/da0", and
> Xfce is not able to help here. When the image has been
> written, there's probably a file system different from
> FAT on the card.


Aaaaaaahhhhh .... That clarifies much .... I work w/ the device 
directly, not MSDOS .... Beauty, ace ;-) ....


>> When I try to view the drive through
>> XFCE's 'flash File Manager' (from top toolbar) it pops up an error
>> dialog saying:
>>
>> mount_msdosfs: can't find or load "msdos_iconv" kernel module
>> mount_msdosfs: msdos_iconv: operation not permitted.
> Is the card currently formatted? What does
>
> 	# fdisk da0
>
> say (if /dev/da0 is the SD card reader)? Or with today's
> tools,
>
> 	# gpart show da0


[root at kabini1, /etc, 7:30:02am] 495 % gpart show da0
=>      63  31127489  da0  MBR  (14G)
         63      8129       - free -  (4M)
       8192  31119360    1  !12  (14G)

[root at kabini1, /etc, 7:30:06am] 496 %


>
> Also check the dmesg entries in relation to the card reader.
> Anything suspicious?

nothing at all, it's dated 3:03 A.M. this morning ....

>
> In case the card is formatted with FAT, can you _manually_
> mount it?

 From my messages file this A.M.:

Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: ugen3.2: <vendor 0x05e3> at usbus3
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: umass0: <vendor 0x05e3 USB Storage, 
class 0/0, rev 2.00/9.03, addr 2> on usbus3
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 
0x4100
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: umass0:4:0:-1: Attached to scbus4
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): REPORT LUNS. 
CDB: a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: 
SCSI Status Error
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: 
Check Condition
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: 
ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 (Invalid command operation code)
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Error 22, 
Unretryable error
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 
lun 0
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: da0: <Generic STORAGE DEVICE 0903> 
Removable Direct Access SCSI-6 device
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: da0: Serial Number 000000000903
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: da0: 15199MB (31127552 512 byte sectors: 
255H 63S/T 1937C)
Oct 26 07:29:49 kabini1 kernel: da0: quirks=0x3<NO_SYNC_CACHE,NO_6_BYTE>


All I see is the device name (da0), no further partitions referenced ....


>
>
>> I am doing this as an ordinary user, something in fstab or amd.conf ?
> I'm surprised you get any reaction at all. I never got
> automounting to work with Xfce...

It's not exactly working for me either, only if I separately prompt an 
automount from CLI in another window :-/ ....

>
> If you have the automounting stuff via HAL and DBUS,
> your /etc/fstab won't probably have an entry for the
> SD card reader, and /etc/amd.conf is probably totally
> out of scope here. Maybe this is an expression of the
> growing incompatibilities between Linux (where Xfce
> has been created for) and FreeBSD?
>
> I'm a bit surprised about the "msdos_iconv" kernel
> module, which should be present. Can you manually
> load it, maybe via /boot/loader.conf?


Could I load it w/ kldload (if it's there to load) ?


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