Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument [SOLVED]

2008-06-13 Thread Colin_Brace
Colin_Brace wrote: > > I am having difficulties mounting a USB drive under 7.0-STABLE. Running > sysinstall, I can create a partition and format it. But sysinstall is > unable to mount it: > > Error mounting /dev/da0s1d on /media/disk6 : Invalid argument > > The same error ocurrs when I try to

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-06-02 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Colin Brace on 05/31/08 05:17>> > On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:42:21 +0200, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystems on >> the partitions with newfs? > > Ah, no. According to Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd ed, which I have in fron

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Colin_Brace
Hi again, It seems like a JMicron issue. I can mount a different USB drive, formatted for Linux, without problem: dmesg: [...] umass0: on uhub1 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: < > Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 38154MB (78140160 512 byte secto

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 31 May 2008 13:29:26 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then: > >> > >> # mount /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6 > >> mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument > > mount_msdosfs ? Maybe. But then it'd likely be /dev/da0s1 .. Even if it's UFS, you wouldn't want to

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:17:57PM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > > On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:42:21 +0200, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystems on > > the partitions with newfs? > > Ah, no. According to Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd e

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Then: # mount /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6 mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument mount_msdosfs ? This is caused by the nmount system call returning EINVAL. Quoting from mount(2): [EINVAL] The super block for the file system had a bad magic number or an out of range block size.

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Colin Brace
On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:42:21 +0200, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystems on > the partitions with newfs? Ah, no. According to Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd ed, which I have in front of me, newfs invoked by sysinstall, which I used t

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:27:50AM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > > On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:29:55 +0200, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you show us what is shown in the dmesg output when you plug this > > drive in, which devices are then created and the exact command that you > > u

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Colin Brace
On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:29:55 +0200, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you show us what is shown in the dmesg output when you plug this > drive in, which devices are then created and the exact command that you > used to mount it? dmesg: [...] umass0: on uhub1 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am having difficulties mounting a USB drive under 7.0-STABLE. Running > sysinstall, I can create a partition and format it. But sysinstall is > unable to mount it: > > Error mounting /dev/da0s1d on /media/disk6 : Inva