Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

[Patrick Baldwin]

Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 12/12/2007 7:50 AM Patrick Baldwin said the following:
>> Trix Farrar wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>>>> Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a
>>>> FreeBSD 6.2 system.  This seemed like it should be relatively simple,
>>>> but:
>>>>
>>>> webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
>>>> mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's probably formatted msdosfs.  Have you tried:
>>>
>>> webmail# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
>>>
>>
>> No, I hadn't, but that doesn't seem to work either:
>>
>> mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
>> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument
>>
>> webmail# dmesg
>> umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2
>> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>> da0: <WD 1600BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device
>> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
>> da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C)
>> mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry
>> mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry 
> 
> Just a guess here but it's likely the drive was formatted as NTFS 
> instead of FAT-32 if it's a recent drive.  Try mount_ntfs.
> 
> HTH,


Tried that, got:

webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount_ntfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument

Which doesn't make any sense to me, as it seems to
be telling me the /dev/da0s1 is an invalid argument.

Just for the hell of it, I tried:
webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdrive
mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument

Argh.  Hate it when what I expected to be a simple task
eats this much time.