What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Sun Mar 26 12:01:11 UTC 2006


On Sunday 26 March 2006 04:41, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Chris Hill wrote:
>
> [Replying to myself...]
>
> > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Saul Mena Avila wrote:
> >> Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't
> >> let me.
> >> I use (as root):
> >>
> >> mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash
> >>
> >> The feedback is something like "device ad0 doesn't allow action" Can
> >> anybody help me?
> >
> > Are you sure that /dev/ad0 is actually your flash device? That doesn't
> > look right to me. What is the physical interface to your flash memory?
> > That is, is it USB, a PCMCIA card, or what?
>
> Sorry, I'd already forgotten that the subject line said USB. Given USB,
> it will be seen by the system as a SCSI device. I think you would have
> to add "device atapicam" to your kernel config, but not sure about that.

My camera, which is a usb storage device, shows as da0s1 (at least that's what 
I have in fstab).





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