USB mounting

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:39:57 -0700, Sukhveer Yadav wrote:
> Pls tell me that sir if rooted Micromax A177 supports USB mounting or not

I have no idea. You should ask this question to the maintainers
of the rooting tools. But you can already do many diagnostic steps
on your FreeBSD system in order to see if all the involved parts
are there: USB connection, mass storage access, direct access driver,
file system support. If you follow the examples, you'll quickly find
out if it supports USB mounting or not. Not all devices do...

I'll provide an example, but I will use a normal USB (storage) stick
for explanation purposes. When your smartphone has been configured
to expose a comparable interface, the steps should be similar. I
will trim the output a little, in order to emphasize the important
lines.

After plugging the device in and giving it few seconds to "settle",
you check what the system has been recognizing. See the last lines
of the "dmesg" output:

# dmesg
[...]
ugen4.3: <Sony> at usbus4
umass1: <Sony Storage Media, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 3> on usbus4
da3 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus4 target 0 lun 0
da3: <Sony Storage Media 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da3: 40.000MB/s transfers
da3: 3826MB (7835648 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 487C)

First, "ugen" (generic USB device) must be recognized. This
indicates that the USB connection is there. Then "umass" is
shown: a mass storage device. This device is then "connected"
to the direct access driver: "da" is shown.

You know that "ugen4.3" corresponds to your device. You can
now request more information about its capabilities:

# usbconfig -d 4.3 dump_device_desc
ugen4.3: <Storage Media Sony> at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON
  bLength = 0x0012 
  bDescriptorType = 0x0001 
  bcdUSB = 0x0200 
  bDeviceClass = 0x0000 
  bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000 
  bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000 
  bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 
  idVendor = 0x054c 
  idProduct = 0x0243 
  bcdDevice = 0x0200 
  iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Sony>
  iProduct = 0x0002  <Storage Media>
  iSerialNumber = 0x0003  <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  bNumConfigurations = 0x0001

Good so far. You can verify now that the system has properly picked
up a direct access media to mount:

# camcontrol devlist
<Sony Storage Media 1.00>          at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (da3,pass4)

Now check if there are partitions to mount. You now use da3 (or
with which number it hopefully appears on your system) as the
device name.

# gpart show da3

or

# fdisk da3

will display the partitioning. You will have to mount /dev/da3
or /dev/da3s1, depending on partitioning scheme "applied". Maybe
you can also configure that on the smartphone itself.

To test, you do this:

# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da3 /mnt

or

# mount -t msdosfs -o ro /dev/da3s1 /mnt

and verify the output of

# mount -a

to list the device properly mounted: /dev/da3 will be mounted at /mnt.
You may add more mount options for convenience, as well as set an entry
in /etc/fstab. Here is an example on how to do this:

/dev/da3   /media/micromax   msdosfs   rw,noauto,noatime,-m=644,-M=755   0   0

Now that you're done, unmount it again.

# umount /mnt

Now you can then simply use

# mount /media/micromax

Just make sure the mountpoint does exist and you have the proper
permissions. To avoid permission-related issues, you can do the
testing as root. If everything works, just set up the permissions
for your regular user account.

You can read more about how to do this in the handbook:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/usb-disks.html

This chapter covers the neccessary parts of mounting USB media.



> .if yes then tell me instructions for that as those given in site do not
> seem to be work .

Which site? Please be specific so list members can look it up.



> I have es file manager .stickmount .pls help me

I don't know about "es file manager". But for diagnostic purposes,
which are the _first step_ you should take, no file manager is needed,
just basic OS tools as shown above.

For better help, please provide more detailed information on _what_
documentation you did follow, which steps you've taken (commands used),
what the result was (output) and which additional troubleshooting
you did (verifications and prequisites). For now, it's nothing more
than wild guessing. :-)



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