Flash Disk

[Richard C. Isaacson]

I have been doing a lot of key work over the last couple of days What I 
am doing is:
dmesg | grep da0
To find the drive that is listed on as it might not be da0 if you have 
other things plugged in.
Then:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
Does the same thing but I think ends up being a little cleaner.

-rich

vittorio wrote:
> With all my USB pens I invariably use:
>
> /sbin/mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
>
> And it works.
>
> Vittorio
> Alle 06:09, venerdì 06 gennaio 2006, Teilhard Knight ha scritto:
>   
>>> On 2006-01-05 15:28, Teilhard Knight <teilhk at crosswinds.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Can someone tell me, or point to me where I can find, how to
>>>> mount a Flash Disk in release 6.0? I have Googled, but I simply
>>>> cannot find the right way.  An icon to mount and unmount on the
>>>> desktop would be nice. Thanks.
>>>>         
>>> When I plug my USB JetFlash disk, the following appears in
>>> /var/log/messages (and the system console, but I mostly use X11
>>> these days):
>>>
>>>    umass0: USB Flash Disk, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
>>>    da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>>>    da0:  Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
>>>    da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
>>>    da0: 250MB (512000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 250C)
>>>       
>> I get something similar too. The Device Node is created all right.
>>
>>     
>>> When you plug the USB flash disk in, /dev/da0 (or another daX
>>> device) is automatically created.  If the flash disk already has
>>> partitions (they usually come with a single FAT partition),
>>> you'll also see da0s1 or something similar:
>>>
>>>    # ls -l /dev/da*
>>>    crw-r-----  1 root  operator  -   4,  44 Oct 16 17:38 /dev/da0
>>>       
>> Yes, I also get something similar to this.
>>
>>     
>>> If you see only da0, it's possible that the 'raw disk' is
>>> formatted using FAT, without a real BIOS-style partition, which
>>> means that you should be able to 'mount' it with something like:
>>>
>>>    # /sbin/mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
>>>       
>> I do not only see da0 above and this command results in: "mount_msdosfs:
>> /dev/da0: Invalid argument"
>>
>>     
>>> That's it.  Copy files to and from the /mnt directory.  When you
>>> are done, make sure you unmount the flash disk before removing
>>> it.  If you don't, chances are your kernel will panic when it
>>> discovers the physical flash disk is gone.
>>>
>>>    # umount /mnt
>>>
>>> Now, it's safe to pull the flash disk out.
>>>       
>> You told me how to mount my flash disk in case the command "ls -l /dev/da0"
>> results incomplete or I have the disk raw formatted. But what should I do
>> if I get all similar to what you get? In other words, how do you mount your
>> flash disk?
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>>
>> Teilhard.
>>
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