Re: USB mass storage woes

[Andreas Kahari <ak@freeshell.org>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:55:59PM +0100, Dylan Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to mount a 64MB 'keyring' USB flash drive. It refuses to work. 
> Relevant parts of dmesg:
> 
> umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
> umass0: LEXR PLUG DRIVE LEXR PLUG DRIVE, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2
> umass0: using SCSI over BBB-P
> scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets
> sd0 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <LEXAR, JUMPDRIVE, 1.01> SCSI1 0/direct 
> removable
> sd0: 4198MB, 984 cyl, 4 head, 32 sec, 34820 bytes/sec, 125952 sec total
> 
> I'm using OpenBSD GENERIC#44 i386
> 
> In frustration, I even did this:
> 
> for i in /dev/sd*
> do
> mount -t msdos $i /mnt
> done
> 
> (The unit appears to be an MSDOS filesystem in Windows and Linux, Linux 
> reporting it as vfat)
> The results I get:
> 
> mount_msdos: /dev/sd0a on /mnt: Device not configured
> 
> after a lengthy (a minute or so) pause where the system is rather 
> unresponsive, except for /dev/sd0c which gives the long pause, but then tells 
> me it's not an msdos file system.
> 
> Anyone had any success with these devices?

Try running "disklabel sd0" to view the fstype.

My guess would be to use /dev/sd0i.  Try mounting it twice if it
doesn't work the first time.

-- 
Andreas Kähäri
Essex, England