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 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 any input is cool.... any answers .. will be awesome!! edgar