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 ed, which I have in front of me, > newfs invoked by sysinstall, which I used to create the slice and partition > it (p 241). > > Anyway, I now try running newfs in terminal, but it throws up some errrors: > > # newfs /dev/da0s1c > /dev/da0s1c: 194474.3MB (398283416 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size > 2048 > using 1059 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 160: Invalid argument > > # newfs /dev/da0s1c > /dev/da0s1c: 194474.3MB (398283416 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size > 2048 > using 1059 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976, > 3387328, 3763680, 4140032,newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 4516384: > Invalid argument > > I tried it several times; the errors seem kinda random, since they vary > each time I run the command. > > Could it be that the chipset of this USB device, JMicron, is not entirely > supported by FreeBSD? The reason I ask is because this appears to be an > issue under Linux; cf, http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3751
I've only had trouble with JMicron when using geli(8) encrypted partitions on a machine that was underpowered. But not when just doing a newfs. You could try building a kernel without umass, but with atausb and atapifd. The disk will be attached as a floppy drive, /dev/afd* Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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