One item of note – I did not notice this before, the but following messages are appearing in dmesg whenever I try to mount this device. Note that I have another msdosfs usb stick mounted in usb0, that mount worked fine first try.
WARNING: mount of da2s1 denied due to unsupported optional features From: Joseph Mays Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:55 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: USB can't mount msdosfs drive Tried several iterations, though it’s clearly a fat32 formatted USB drive. Shown below are the results of fdisk and the mount_msdosfs command. root@warehouse:/root # fdisk /dev/da2 ******* Working on device /dev/da2 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1897 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1897 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 12 (0x0c),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA)) start 8064, size 30473088 (14879 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 706/ head 115/ sector 52 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> root@warehouse:/root # mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /usb2 mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: Invalid argument root@warehouse:/root # _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"