Hi, On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:23:42 +0200 Zoran Kolic <zko...@sbb.rs> wrote:
> > Zoran, re Brandon's "won't understand it any more." > > Dont despair & discard stick, you can rebuild the MBR: man fdisk > > from memory start with fdisk -i -B /dev/da0 > > First, thanks all for replies! > After a bit of puzzling, I found that the problem was every Transcend > usb stick I have. They are all fine for mundane tasks and newfs_msdos > makes it able to work on freebsd. My music player was picky and has > something to say against. When I inserted old and forgoten Verbatim > drive, without making f32, it presented itself and files were ready > to play. Unbelievable. > Yep, I did fdisk step after I posted the question. No go on Transcend. > Might be hardware incompatibility or else. Btw, I always do just newfs > on back up usb disks and never had any problem, so far, on freebsd. > Once again, thank you for help. > FreeBSD has no problem when the file system is directly on the device. Other operating system have problems with it as they expect partitions. fdisk is a bit outdated. Use gpart for partitioning. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
