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The Drive shows up as Umass1
I tried 'sysinstall' -> fdisk but the drive doesn't show up there.
I'm not sure how to mount this drive... any ideas (I can't reboot the machine as it is a production server)?
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Here is an (untested) article describing how to use the automount daemon:
http://unixtipsandtricks.b
it is currently NTFS, however, I definitely need it to be UFS. I have PC-BSD, Fedora 10, and Ubuntu 8.10 machines... do you think they could format the drive UFS? Would that make detection easier?
Also, there is currently a 300GB USB drive attached to the freebsd 6.1 machine... i'm not sure if that makes a difference. I'll try your suggestions tomorrow.
it can't see the device... not sure what is going on here... this is from var/log/messages (i had unplugged a 300gb usb drive and plugged the 1tb drive in to the usb port it was just in (because when i had them both plugged it it wouldn't recognize)).
Mar 4 13:45:11 devweb4 kernel: umass1: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 3) disconnected
Mar 4 13:45:11 devweb4 kernel: umass1: detached
Mar 4 13:45:15 devweb4 kernel: umass0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
Mar 4 13:45:15 devweb4 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
Mar 4 13:45:15 devweb4 kernel: (da0:dead_sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x8, scsi status =$
Mar 4 13:45:15 devweb4 kernel: (da0:dead_sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
Mar 4 13:45:15 devweb4 kernel: umass0: detached
Mar 4 13:45:31 devweb4 kernel: umass0: Western Digital My Book, rev 2.00/1.75, addr 2
here is an example of me unplugging the 1TB drive, plugging in the 300GB drive, then plugging in the 1TB drive
(it looks like the 300GB drive is read as da0, and the 1TB drive is read as umass1)
Mar 4 13:45:15 devweb4 kernel: umass0: detached
Mar 4 13:45:31 devweb4 kernel: umass0: Western Digital My Book, rev 2.00/1.75, addr 2
Mar 4 13:51:44 devweb4 kernel: umass0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
Mar 4 13:51:44 devweb4 kernel: umass0: detached
Mar 4 13:59:13 devweb4 kernel: umass0: JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
Mar 4 13:59:14 devweb4 kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Mar 4 13:59:14 devweb4 kernel: da0: <WDC WD30 00JS-00PDB0 > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
Mar 4 13:59:14 devweb4 kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
Mar 4 13:59:14 devweb4 kernel: da0: 286168MB (586072368 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36481C)
Mar 4 14:00:38 devweb4 kernel: umass1: Western Digital My Book, rev 2.00/1.75, addr 3
Update, The 1TB drive shows as da0 on Freebsd 7.01 pre-release (w/PC-BSD), i can mount it fine there through sysinstall.
The drive still shows as 'umass1' in Freebsd 6.01 and it is never assigned a da0/da1 name. Perhaps the O/S version can't handle a drive that big?
Note: I successfully mounted a 120gb, 250gb, and 300gb drive on the Freebsd 6.01 O/S
i just bought a 750GB drive.... eventually i realized that backing up the server via USB 1.1 was slow painful death so i set up a PC Linux O/S server and NFS, mounted it as a share on my freebsd 6.1 server, then just did a recursive 'svnadmin hotcopy' to the nfs mount.
at that point i pulled the disks, installed the new ones (set up raid container, etc)... fought all kinds of issues with raid5 ... eventually went to raid1 and everything worked.
thanks for the tips though!
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by: mr_egyptianPosted on 2009-03-03 at 16:14:35ID: 23790521
You can try the following command:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/
Look in /dev if this does not work. It may be/dev/da1s1, or something similar.
Presuming the drive is new, it is probably formatted as FAT32. If not, valid filesystem types are cd9660, msdosfs, nfs, nfs4, ntfs, nwfs, nullfs, portalfs, smbfs, udf, unionfs
Or no option for ufs