Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

From: Eduardo Morras <nec556_at_retena.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:39:50 +0200
At 09:21 23/06/2012, you wrote:
>I tried the USB drive this morning with the recommended quirk shown
>above on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #1 r237462: Sat Jun 23 01:00:35 CEST 2012
>without success. I get the same error message as shown above. With or
>without quirk.
>
>I then started Windows 7 on the same box. The USB drive is seen as
>expected and reflects what I experienced on every other non-FreeBSD box
>and hardware in the lab on last week.
>I reformatted the USB drive with extFAT and standard block size on
>Windows 7. The USB drive is now seen again on FreeBSD and recognized as
>a drive. "Seen" in my sloppy terminology means: recognized as a disk.
>The hardware is recognized, but it is not recognized as a drive.

AFAIK extFAT is not directly supported by FreeBSD current. You must 
use fusefs-exfat to mount them. If you try to mount it as if it is a 
fat32, it won't work or weird problems may happen. It may be that 
fusefs-extfat has a bug and you get a 00 on rolldice encounter table.  
Received on Sat Jun 23 2012 - 06:43:10 UTC

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