Can't mount thumb drive
Yuri Pankov
yuripv at yuripv.net
Sat Sep 8 19:36:25 UTC 2018
Steven Friedrich wrote:
> When I plug in my thumb drive (A Kingston Data Traveler 1G, FAT), dmesg
> says:
>
> ugen0.5: <Kingston DataTraveler 2.0> at usbus0
> umass0 on uhub0
> umass0: <Kingston DataTraveler 2.0, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 4> on
> usbus0
> umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0xc100
> umass0:7:0: Attached to scbus7
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.04> Removable Direct Access SCSI device
> da0: Serial Number 0681F150A2929B60
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 980MB (2007040 512 byte sectors)
> da0: quirks=0x3<NO_SYNC_CACHE,NO_6_BYTE>
>
> but when I try to mount it using:
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
>
> it squeals Invalid argument.
>
> So I tried:
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0a /mnt
> it squeals Invalid argument.
>
> Both /dev/da0 and /dev/da0a exist.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
You seem to be doing everything correctly, so it's possible something
wrong with the FS itself. Check if you really have FAT there using:
file -s /dev/da0
file -s /dev/da0a
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