mounting a hard drive via usb - solved

[David Banning]

As it turns out - my usb adapter was defective.  Once I used an 
operational adapter all the devices appeared and the disk works like a 
charm!

Thanks for your input.

On 6/18/2011 3:48 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2011-06-18 20:53, David Banning skrev:
>> I am attempting to clone a drive by connecting the prospective "copy"
>> drive via usb. I've just recently upgraded to FBSD 8.2
>>
>> Here is what I get when I insert the drive;
>>
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 
>> lun 0
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: da0:< >  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: 
>> NOT READY, Medium not present
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ 
>> CAPACITY(10). CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI 
>> Status Error
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: 
>> Check Condition
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: NOT 
>> READY asc:3a,0 (Medium not present)
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ 
>> CAPACITY(10). CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI 
>> Status Error
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: 
>> Check Condition
>> Jun 18 14:36:29 3s1 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: NOT 
>> READY asc:3a,0 (Medium not present)
>>
>> I notice that the /dev/da0s1.. entries are gone now from my /dev 
>> directly
>> (maybe this is part of the upgrade to 8.2) so all I have in /dev is
>> /dev/da0
>>
>> My first thought was using MAKEDEV but that is redundant now I 
>> understand.
>>
>> I also read that mounting drives via usb have to be done with the -a 
>> msdosfs
>> option because they are seen as SCSI drives.
>
> Not really. I do something like mount -t <filesystem> /dev/da0 /mnt
> Then I'll check /dev/da* and viola there is /dev/da0sX, you get an error
> when trying to mount /dev/da0 "Device not configured"
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0:
>
>> Wondering how I would go about mounting this drive - right now it's 
>> an old
>> FreeBSD drive which I just want to wipe.
>