Re: USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable
On Mon, January 8, 2007 03:48, Michael M. Press wrote: I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it in, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1901MB (3894975 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 242C) cd1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 cd1: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd1: 40.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present I want to be able to mount the device read-write, so I use the following command: mount -t cd9660 -o rw /dev/cd1 /media/flashdrv The command runs without spitting any errors at me, but it does a read-only mount. I can see files on the drive, but (of course) I can't change them. Does my problem have anything to do with the device being detected as a CD-ROM drive? If that is what's wrong I don't really know where to start looking to fix it. Any ideas? This sounds like a Smart drive - can you confirm? It this is the case it's designed to work this way. You won't be able to write to the CD partition of this flash drive. Smart isn't supported under *nix so the functionality it provides isn't available to FreeBSD users. I have one of these devices myself and simply removed the Smart partition to reclaim the space it takes up. -- Kelvin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 02:18 pm, Michael M. Press wrote: I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it in, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1901MB (3894975 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 242C) cd1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 cd1: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd1: 40.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present I want to be able to mount the device read-write, so I use the following command: mount -t cd9660 -o rw /dev/cd1 /media/flashdrv You cannot mount even a conventional CD drive as a writable cd9660 filesystem. Creating a cd9660 fs is normally a one hit prossess in which the fs is created fully populated and can't then normally be changed except on RW media by overwriting the entire fs. I don't know the device you are using but would expect that you can write a populated cd9660 file system directly using cdrecord (or perhaps burncd) without attempting to mount; just as you would on a conventional ATAPI or SCSII CD drive. Malcolm The command runs without spitting any errors at me, but it does a read-only mount. I can see files on the drive, but (of course) I can't change them. Does my problem have anything to do with the device being detected as a CD-ROM drive? If that is what's wrong I don't really know where to start looking to fix it. Any ideas? -- I have 'device pass' in my kernel -- I am using 6.2 prerelease ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable
This sounds like a Smart drive - can you confirm? I plugged it into a Windows system and it also recognized a CD drive. In addition, it vomited out a few popup windows and started something in the system tray. This is so ingenious that I think it must be a 'smart' drive. An article from the following URL tells me it is a 'U3 smart drive': http://www.everythingusb.com/u3.html I didn't know such a thing existed before today. I have one of these devices myself and simply removed the Smart partition to reclaim the space it takes up. Apparently there is a U3 uninstaller: http://www.u3.com/uninstall/default.aspx Thanks for the responses everyone. My confusion is gone. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable
I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it in, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1901MB (3894975 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 242C) cd1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 cd1: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd1: 40.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present I want to be able to mount the device read-write, so I use the following command: mount -t cd9660 -o rw /dev/cd1 /media/flashdrv The command runs without spitting any errors at me, but it does a read-only mount. I can see files on the drive, but (of course) I can't change them. Does my problem have anything to do with the device being detected as a CD-ROM drive? If that is what's wrong I don't really know where to start looking to fix it. Any ideas? -- I have 'device pass' in my kernel -- I am using 6.2 prerelease ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable
In the last episode (Jan 07), Michael M. Press said: I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it in, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1901MB (3894975 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 242C) cd1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 cd1: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd1: 40.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present I want to be able to mount the device read-write, so I use the following command: mount -t cd9660 -o rw /dev/cd1 /media/flashdrv The command runs without spitting any errors at me, but it does a read-only mount. I can see files on the drive, but (of course) I can't change them. Does my problem have anything to do with the device being detected as a CD-ROM drive? If that is what's wrong I don't really know where to start looking to fix it. Any ideas? Very interesting! cd1 and da0 look like the same device, with cd1 just on LUN 1. I bet if you were to examine /dev/da0 you'd see the real writable FAT filesystem there. I wonder if it is doing fat-cd9660 filesystem emulation on the fly? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
