FreeBSD as Samba Server and Windows as Client

2013-04-17 Thread Beeblebrox
with marcuscom.gnome3 xorg.devel -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/FreeBSD-as-Samba-Server-and-Windows-as-Client-tp5804306p5804418.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions

FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
Dear All , When a Windows XP share is mounted with the following command in FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 , it is working : # mount_smbfs -I 192.168.10.25 //user_name_in_Windows_Administrators@NetBIOS_NAME_in_Windows/Share_Name_in_Windows /mnt I could not be able to write an /etc/fstab entry to mount

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Dave Anderson
When you say could not do an fstab entry, can you say what happens? Do you get any messages in logs? regards Dave -- http://www.marlinbrighton.com On 16/04/2013 08:45, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Dear All , When a Windows XP share is mounted with the following command in FreeBSD 9.1 amd64

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
to run network diagnostics as you can now use WINPC for the Windows PC in any commands. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
, or it won't resolve: 192.168.123.456 WINPC This is also helpful as soon as you have to run network diagnostics as you can now use WINPC for the Windows PC in any commands. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
, When a Windows XP share is mounted with the following command in FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 , it is working : # mount_smbfs -I 192.168.10.25 //user_name_in_Windows_**Administrators@NetBIOS_NAME_** in_Windows/Share_Name_in_**Windows /mnt I could not be able to write an /etc/fstab entry to mount

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Dave Anderson
When you put the entry in fstab and then try to mount it with fstab providing the details, what happens? i.e. without doing a reboot, test fstab by doing the mounts from the command line with the details in fstab regards Dave http://www.marlinbrighton.com On 16/04/2013 10:34, Mehmet Erol

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Dave Anderson d...@marlinbrighton.comwrote: When you put the entry in fstab and then try to mount it with fstab providing the details, what happens? i.e. without doing a reboot, test fstab by doing the mounts from the command line with the details in fstab

FreeBSD as Samba Server and Windows as Client

2013-04-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
Dear All , I could be able to connect a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer as client to a Windows XP ( 32 bits ) by using information supplied by the mail http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-April/250500.html and I sent a mail http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2013

Re: FreeBSD as Samba Server and Windows as Client

2013-04-16 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All , I could be able to connect a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer as client to a Windows XP ( 32 bits ) by using information supplied by the mail http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013

Re: FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

2013-04-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:28:33 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Your message has supplied important information . As I said, I did obtain it from a system that _has been working_ in that regards. :-) When their equivalent values are entered , they worked : WINPC :

Re: FreeBSD as Samba Server and Windows as Client

2013-04-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Richard Sharpe realrichardsha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All , I could be able to connect a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer as client to a Windows XP ( 32 bits ) by using

Re: FreeBSD as Samba Server and Windows as Client

2013-04-16 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/16/2013 2:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Dear All , I could be able to connect a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer as client to a Windows XP ( 32 bits ) by using information supplied by the mail http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-April/250500.html and I sent a mail

Re: FreeBSD as Samba Server and Windows as Client

2013-04-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/16/2013 2:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Dear All , I could be able to connect a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer as client to a Windows XP ( 32 bits ) by using information supplied by the mail http

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
to get applications for an iPad and to copy PDFs to an iPad, since ad-hoc networks until now never worked for me, but I also would like to test hardware sometimes, impossible with VBox, so sometimes it would be nice to have a real Windows install. If this should work, will it become impossible

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Eduardo Morras
. This way you don't need to restart in WinXP. The same can be done from WinXP side, a minimal hd with MBR boot menu to startup the FreeBSD. This does work? I followed the instructions (only once) from this page http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existing-windows-partition

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existing-windows-partition/ and it works under FreeBSD 8.3 and WinXP. I've got XP as VBox's vdi and just a folder to share content with *nix. It would be possible to install XP bootable without VBox to a ntfs partition, to boot it directly

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es writes: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
access BSD by my Linux installs. And no, the ntfs isn't Windows. FWIW my old drives have only one primary and a extended + tons of logical partitions, but I started to partition new drives with 3 primary and one extended including as much logical partitions as needed [2]. To have one partition

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es writes: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:25 -0600, Warren Block wrote: Booting the same Windows install alternately in a VM and then on real hardware may trigger the Genuine Advantage annoyance. This is true, but for some exceptional cases perhaps untrue. I wasn't aware about this possibility, but it does

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by anything

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any

FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so that it can be booted from the traditional master boot record? It is important

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:07 PM, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? As others have already answered, yes. The risks are minimal if you are careful but you will always

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Partition Magic I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at http://partedmagic.com as a live media. Perhaps you need to defragment the Windows

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:49:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Partition Magic I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at http://partedmagic.com as a

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Michael Ross
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:27:45 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? Yes. If so

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2013-01-02 Thread Keith Roberts
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Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-05 Thread Leslie Jensen
Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-04 12:37: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:41:45 +0530 From: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com To: les...@eskk.nu CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-05 Thread Manish Jain
Hello Leslie, The short answer is No. And it would need more than a miracle to salvage the situation if the partition information is lost. Sorry if I broke your hopes. But to look at the brighter side of things : 1) You would never have learnt so quickly so much about Windows/FreeBSD

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-05 Thread jb
Manish Jain bourne.identity at hotmail.com writes: Hello Leslie, The short answer is No. And it would need more than a miracle to salvage the situation if the partition information is lost. ... I am wondering if this could help: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk jb

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:25:25 + (UTC), jb wrote: Manish Jain bourne.identity at hotmail.com writes: Hello Leslie, The short answer is No. And it would need more than a miracle to salvage the situation if the partition information is lost. ... I am wondering if this could

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Leslie Jensen
Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-02 19:18: 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. 2) Boot from your

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Manish Jain
are unclear with FreeBSD terminology. What Windows calls primary partitions are called slices in FreeBSD. You can have a maximum of 4 slices per disk, as I had mentioned earlier. One of the slices may optionally be marked as what Windows calls an extended partition. The extended partition can be broken up

RE: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Manish Jain
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:41:45 +0530 From: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com To: les...@eskk.nu CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18: 1

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-02 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-11-02 04:39, Warren Block skrev: On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). In order to move my Win7

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-02 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:26:33 +0100 Leslie Jensen articulated: I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-02 Thread Manish Jain
that your trust was never breached by Microsoft (for once). Microsoft firmly believes that Windows is the only OS that should reside on a PC's disk. Therefore running chkdsk with force was only an invitation to Microsoft to run amok. BTW, the reason I replied to this message was not to provide you

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-02 Thread Leslie Jensen
Jerry skrev 2012-11-02 12:22: On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:26:33 +0100 Leslie Jensen articulated: I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). In order to move

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-02 Thread Leslie Jensen
that you by now have discovered that your trust was never breached by Microsoft (for once). Microsoft firmly believes that Windows is the only OS that should reside on a PC's disk. Therefore running chkdsk with force was only an invitation to Microsoft to run amok. BTW, the reason I replied

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-02 Thread Warren Block
that that is not the case. Windows lives in an insular universe, where everything else is Windows. Or should be, as far as it is concerned. Same as always: make a backup before doing something serious to the disk. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-02 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I use sysinstall and fdisk to find the disk, and I get Please don't use sysinstall for this or any disk formatting. Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc SubtypeFlags 0 63 62- 12 unused

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-02 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-11-02 16:12, Warren Block skrev: On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I use sysinstall and fdisk to find the disk, and I get Please don't use sysinstall for this or any disk formatting. Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-02 Thread Manish Jain
the data from the freebsd partition? I trust that you by now have discovered that your trust was never breached by Microsoft (for once). Microsoft firmly believes that Windows is the only OS that should reside on a PC's disk. Therefore running chkdsk with force was only an invitation to Microsoft

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-02 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/11/02 14:49:57 +0100 Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu = To Manish Jain : LJ Right after installation of FreeBSD, I ran : LJ dd if=/dev/ad4 of=ad4.512 bs=512 count=1 LJ dd if=/dev/ad4s2 of=ad4s2.512 bs=512 count=1 LJ dd if=/dev/ad4s2a of=ad4s2a.512 bs=512 count=1 LJ Will you explain

My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-01 Thread Leslie Jensen
I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton Ghost program was supplied with the new disk. When trying

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

2012-11-01 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton Ghost program

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/09/05 09:06:36 +0700 Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : VS Depending on a task I think the most interactive user-friendly solution here is VS a minicom(s) each in its own ssh'ed jail(s). VS VS There is special Windows software for managing

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
Peter Vereshagin wrote: Depending on a task I think the most interactive user-friendly solution here is a minicom(s) each in its own ssh'ed jail(s). There is special Windows software for managing Natex MUXes. It works with those MUXes via an RS232 port only. I want to be able to run it from

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question, I know :) Finding a Windows driver that will work with an existing

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Boosten
On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Eric Masson
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su writes: Hi, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? Yes, sredird on the FreeBSD box NetDialout from PCMicro

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread perryh
Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? If I understand your question correctly, then AFAICT the only way to access serial ports over

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? If I understand your question correctly, then AFAICT the only way to access serial ports over the network is with a piece of additional

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
Eric Masson wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? Yes, sredird on the FreeBSD box NetDialout from PCMicro on the Windows box. Oh

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:02:17 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
Polytropon wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are there any

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/09/03 14:29:20 +0700 Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : VS There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be VS accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone VS have a success story for such a scenario

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread perryh
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question, I know :) Finding a Windows driver that will work

Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are there any (freeware) Windows virtual

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I tried the opposite. I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work on FreeBSD on an USB 3.0 port. One hard disk only works

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread O. Hartmann
on different hardware platforms and even those machines prior not recognizing the USB drive do recognize the drive as Lexar USB Flash drive with 64GB. That is Suse Linux (some 12.XX), that is Ubuntu 12.04, that is Windows 7 Pro/x64. I can format the drive, I can push and pull data from it. So, since

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and hardware in the lab on last week. I reformatted the USB drive with extFAT and standard block size on Windows 7. The USB drive is now seen again on FreeBSD and recognized as this points that the pendrive's controller is not just flaky but horrid. The communiation with OS, and how/whether

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
My elder colleague often told me that it is the easiest and well-working way to check whether the one is certified to work for Mac OS X to get USB mass storage devices which work with *BSD :) Just my 5 yen, -|-__ YAMAMOTO, Taku | __ t...@tackymt.homeip.net What if a USB mass storage

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What if a USB mass storage device works with some BSDs but not all? well the only thing i never experiences with USB pendrives is a one that works everytime properly. Everything else is possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 21 June 2012 23:22, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: usbconfig -d 7.6 add_quirk UQ_MSC_NO_INQUIRY Then re-plug it. I'm sorry to say a lot of USB flash sticks out there are broken and only tested with the timing of MS Windows. Part of the problem is that it is difficult

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I tried the opposite. I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work on FreeBSD on an USB 3.0 port. One hard disk only works on

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
of MS Windows. Part of the problem is that it is difficult to autodetect these issues, because once you trigger the non- supported SCSI command, then the flash key stops working like you experience. I would be more than glad to open up an office to certify USB devices for use with FreeBSD

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:50:05 +0700 Erich Dollansky articulated: USB is more a lottery than real computing for me. That is really sad. I am sort of forced to use USB devices on a daily basis, Luckily, very few of them involve FreeBSD, which is why I do not exhibit such a negative attitude,

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 18:18:58 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:50:05 +0700 Erich Dollansky articulated: USB is more a lottery than real computing for me. That is really sad. I am sort of forced to use USB devices on a daily basis, Luckily, very few of them involve FreeBSD,

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.comwrote: My elder colleague often told me that it is the easiest and well-working way to check whether the one is certified to work for Mac OS X to get USB mass storage devices which work with *BSD :) Just my 5 yen,

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ports. Same as in my case. USB is more a lottery than real computing for me. but this is not USB standard fault, but USB device manufacturers that cannot really read standard specifications. It works (under windoze, under linux) is enough. ___

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
daily basis, Luckily, very few of them involve FreeBSD, which is why I do not exhibit such a negative attitude, except of course when I do attempt to plug one in a FreeBSD machine with negative results. I do not know what is more pathetic; the fact that so many devices fail to operate correctly

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:00:29 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar articulated: ports. Same as in my case. USB is more a lottery than real computing for me. but this is not USB standard fault, but USB device manufacturers that cannot really read standard specifications. It works (under

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
windoze, under linux) is enough. If the ROI does not exceed the expenditure to meet a specification that only applies to a niche segment of the potential market, then it is in all probability not going to happen. Right. Fine. There is not written on them conforms to USB Mass Storage standard

USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-22 Thread O. Hartmann
as Lexar USB Flash drive with 64GB. That is Suse Linux (some 12.XX), that is Ubuntu 12.04, that is Windows 7 Pro/x64. I can format the drive, I can push and pull data from it. So, since the USB drive won't work with three different FreeBSD boxes (one running 9-STABLE, two 10-CURRENT, all systems

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
platforms and even those machines prior not recognizing the USB drive do recognize the drive as Lexar USB Flash drive with 64GB. That is Suse Linux (some 12.XX), that is Ubuntu 12.04, that is Windows 7 Pro/x64. I can format the drive, I can push and pull data from it. So, since the USB drive won't

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-22 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
prior not recognizing the USB drive do recognize the drive as Lexar USB Flash drive with 64GB. That is Suse Linux (some 12.XX), that is Ubuntu 12.04, that is Windows 7 Pro/x64. I can format the drive, I can push and pull data from it. So, since the USB drive won't work with three different

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
incapable of handling the 64GB drive. I do not have issues with USB it's not about capacity. But seems some quirks for that pendrive (which have buggy firmware) has to be added, as it doesn't respond for inquiry command. sorry i am not USB expert. umass1: Lexar USB Flash Drive, class 0/0,

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-22 Thread Brandon Gooch
platforms and even those machines prior not recognizing the USB drive do recognize the drive as Lexar USB Flash drive with 64GB. That is Suse Linux (some 12.XX), that is Ubuntu 12.04, that is Windows 7 Pro/x64. I can format the drive, I can push and pull data from it. So, since the USB drive won't

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-22 Thread Waitman Gobble
, but this seems to be a gambling issue :-( Trying Linux on different hardware platforms and even those machines prior not recognizing the USB drive do recognize the drive as Lexar USB Flash drive with 64GB. That is Suse Linux (some 12.XX), that is Ubuntu 12.04, that is Windows 7 Pro/x64

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-27 Thread from_mars
Hi. Sorry for my english. I have a dual boot system, windows 7 64-bit (ada1) and FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 GEOM (ada0). I did it by installing FreeBSD boot0 on Windows HDD: boot0cfg -B ada1 then I choose Windows HDD as first boot drive in BIOS. Now at boot i have boot0 menu: F1 - Win

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7

Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which to believe. My new machine has two disk drives

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread doug
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:41:22 Jerry McAllister wrote: Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't you make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose which drive to boot from? That surely seems the hard way.Why interrupt the boot and

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/23/12 14:49, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system, windows 7 (ad0) and FreeBSD 9-stable (ad1). I moved back to BIOS boot after (I think) windows upgrade stabbed ad0. I found the system with a blank screen in the AM. Using BIOS boot, The first windows screen had

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread David Demelier
On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Da Rock
On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-03-19 08:53, Da Rock skrev: On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread David Demelier
to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread krad
: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space

Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-18 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) And then I let the installer

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