Mounting a msdos-formated USB Mass storage device

[Brice Gensburger]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:46:52PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <20030408161444.GA1137 at localhost.localdomain>, Brice Gensburger <brice at mouarf.net> typed:
> > I'm having a bit of a hard time with an external USB2.0/Firewire HD.
> 
> You're not mounting the right thing.
> 

(snip)

> > The data for partition 4 is:
> > <UNUSED>
> 
> Slice 1 is the only one in use; that's the one you have to mount.
> 
> > disklabel /dev/da0
> 
> Disklabels are a BSD thing, and will only be understood by BSD
> systems. While it may be possible to put an MSDOS system on a BSD
> partition, there's no reason for doing so.
> 
> > # mount /dev/da0s1c /usbdrive 
> > mount: /dev/da0s1c on /usbdrive: incorrect super block
> > which is only natural, since it's not UFS.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > # mount_msdos /dev/da0s1c /usbdrive
> > mount_msdos: /dev/da0s1c: Invalid argument
> 
> Wrong. The DOS file system - assuming it's formatted - isn't on 1c,
> it's on 1. You need
> 
> # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /usbdrive

# mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /usbdrive
msdos: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument


I'm beginning to wonder if the partition isn't a bit weird.. i had to use Partition Magic to format the disk..
Works fine on w98SE through firewire, & w2kpro through USB1.1..


> 
> > I googled for this, and found several posts saying to try to mount the 4th slice for Zip Drives and such. Ok, let's try that:
> > # mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /usbdrive
> > mount_msdos: /dev/da0s4: Invalid argument 
> > Now, i don't understand...
> 
> There's not a fourth slice on the disk, so naturally it's an invalid
> argument. If there had been a dos partition on the fourth slice,
> you've got a right syntax.
> 
> 	<mike
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