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

From: O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:48:14 +0200
On 06/23/12 10:39, Eduardo Morras wrote:
> 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. 

... but even this does not work if FreeBSD does not recognize a device
like "/dev/da1", does it?

Even with a ext4 filesystem, the computer should recognize a devcie I
could access to mount via /dev/da1


Received on Sat Jun 23 2012 - 08:48:16 UTC

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