Its a FreeBSD partition from another box. However the drive itself is not showing up when I do a "usbdevs -d -v".
This is the problem I am having. I know how to mount and all that stuff, just not exactly what I need to do to get FreeBSD to see the drive itself. Thanks Michael FreeBSD questionsFreeBSD questionsOn Sun, 2004-07-18 at 19:26, 3BSD wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:29:03 -0400, Michael E. Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I had a hard drive (8 Gig) sitting around and thought I would try the > > new USB 2.0 hard drive kits. It works just fine in Winblows but I am > > unable to get it to show up under FreeBSD. > > > > 4.10-Stable > > > > kernel conf file below... > <snip> > > You need to provide some additional information. > > 1. What filesystem has the drive been formatted with? If its NTFS, I > suggest you re-format the drive using FAT32 because you don't have > NTFS support in your kernel config, and even if you did, the drive > will not be of much use to you in FreeBSD as NTFS support is not all > that great. > > 2. What's the mount command you're using to mount the drive? I use the > following to mount my external USB2 drive: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ext > > And it works perfectly with both USB and FireWire, better under > FireWire, if you ask me. ;-) > > -Assad > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"