On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:35:37PM -0700, edgar mortiz wrote: > I have a 1gb USB Flash Drive and i formatted it on Windows XP so i can > move files from windows to openbsd and vice versa. i plugged the usb > on my bsd box and dmesg shows up as: > > ** dmesg: ** > umass0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 > umass0: SONY USB 2.0 Flash, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 > umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only > scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets > sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <SONY, USB 2.0 Flash, %z!Y> SCSI2 > 0/direct removable > sd0: 1024MB, 1024 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 2097280 sec total > > it seems that openbsd sees the drive .. cool > > but when i mount it > > relic# mount -t msdos /dev/sd0a /mnt > mount_msdos: /dev/sd0a on /mnt: Inappropriate file type or format The error is a bit misleading. Try 'mount /dev/sd0i /mnt' which just works here and is what most of the google hits suggest. > > i check the disklabel, and fdisk results: > > ** disklabel: ** > > relic# disklabel sd0 > disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid OpenBSD partition > # /dev/rsd0c: > type: SCSI > disk: SCSI disk > label: USB 2.0 Flash > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 32 > tracks/cylinder: 64 > sectors/cylinder: 2048 > cylinders: 1024 > total sectors: 2097280 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # microseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 16 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 2097217 63 MSDOS # Cyl 0*- > 1024* > c: 2097280 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 - > 1024* > > ** fdisk: ** > > relic# fdisk sd0 > fdisk: sysctl(machdep.bios.diskinfo): Device not configured > Disk: sd0 geometry: 1024/64/32 [2097280 Sectors] > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > *3: 0B 0 1 1 - 1023 63 32 [ 32: 2097120 ] Win95 FAT-32 > > it seems that openbsd sees the fs as is FAT32 .. but i still don't get > it why it's saying something like " Inappropriate file type or format > " maybe I'm missing something .. any help from you guys out there ..as > a workaround .. i've tried to format the usb drive via newfs_msdos ( > newfs_msdos /dev/sd0a ) it was able to format it and all but when it's > time to put it on the xp box .. it says drive cannot be read .. I'm > using OpenBSD 3.7 GENERIC#50 Not likely to be a formating issue. Again the error is a bit misleading. > > any input is cool.... any answers .. will be awesome!! > > edgar >
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