Re: usb key problem

2009-10-19 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:06:08PM -0400, PJ wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:16 -0400, PJ wrote: > > [snip...] > > Anyway, I found the solution on the web... couldn't belive it was that > simple: just ignore the crap spewed out on the screen and just mount iit > as y

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-16 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:06:08 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> Anyway, I found the solution on the web... couldn't belive it was that >> simple: just ignore the crap spewed out on the screen and just mount iit >> as you would any other disk. >> # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt >> and

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-16 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:05:01 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips wrote: > To be fair, Windows XP supports the NTFS filesystem that is > very feature-rich. And prone to file system corruption, as well as not very performant speed-wise (which doesn't count in regards of backups). :-) > Although, I reca

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-16 Thread James Phillips
> > Message: 11 > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:32:46 +0200 > From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: usb key problem > To: PJ > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20091016013246.c0e022e5.free...@edvax.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:12:06 -0400, PJ wrote: > I do hate MS, but can't totally avoid it. I'm totally MICROS~1 free for more than 15 years now. :-) > Now, I hope the key works to transfer the dumpfiles even if it's in Fat32... It should work, BUT... I think I remember that there was a size li

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:06:08 -0400, PJ wrote: > Anyway, I found the solution on the web... couldn't belive it was that > simple: just ignore the crap spewed out on the screen and just mount iit > as you would any other disk. > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt > and that's it Additionally, when

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:45 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> Now that I have had a few moments to think about it, maybe I have to >> give good old cruze and enema and format it under XP ... maybe all it >> needs is a clean system on it. ;-) >> > > I'm not sure if USB sticks tend

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:16 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB >> keys. >> When inserted, generate errors: >> da0 seems to be read correctly >> but then comes arow of >> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status:

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:45 -0400, PJ wrote: > Now that I have had a few moments to think about it, maybe I have to > give good old cruze and enema and format it under XP ... maybe all it > needs is a clean system on it. ;-) I'm not sure if USB sticks tend to degrade filesystem-wise, but when y

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:16 -0400, PJ wrote: > I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB > keys. > When inserted, generate errors: > da0 seems to be read correctly > but then comes arow of > (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status: SCSI Status Error > snip NOT RE

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB > keys. > When inserted, generate errors: > da0 seems to be read correctly > but then comes arow of > (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status: SCSI Status Error > snip NOT READY asc:3a,0 > Medium not present > U