Re: Openbsd 3.7 using USB 1gb (fat32-winxp) mount says " Inappropriate file type or format "

[Ray Percival <rpercival_(_at_)_scarynetworkguy_(_dot_)_net>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:35:37PM -0700, edgar mortiz wrote:
> I have a 1gb USB Flash Drive and i formatted it on Windows XP so i can
> move files from windows to openbsd and vice versa. i plugged the usb
> on my bsd box and dmesg shows up as:
> 
> ** dmesg: **
> umass0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
> umass0: SONY USB  2.0  Flash, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
> umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
> scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets
> sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <SONY, USB 2.0 Flash, %z!Y> SCSI2
> 0/direct removable
> sd0: 1024MB, 1024 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 2097280 sec total
> 
> it seems that openbsd sees the drive .. cool 
> 
> but when i mount it 
> 
> relic# mount -t msdos /dev/sd0a /mnt
> mount_msdos: /dev/sd0a on /mnt: Inappropriate file type or format
The error is a bit misleading. Try 'mount /dev/sd0i /mnt' which just works here and is what most of the google hits suggest. 
> 
> i check the disklabel, and fdisk results:
> 
> ** disklabel: **
> 
> relic# disklabel sd0
> disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid OpenBSD partition
> # /dev/rsd0c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: SCSI disk
> label: USB  2.0  Flash
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 32
> tracks/cylinder: 64
> sectors/cylinder: 2048
> cylinders: 1024
> total sectors: 2097280
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
> 
> 16 partitions:
> #             size        offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
>   a:       2097217            63   MSDOS                   # Cyl     0*-  1024*
>   c:       2097280             0  unused      0     0      # Cyl     0 -  1024*
> 
> ** fdisk: **
> 
> relic# fdisk sd0
> fdisk: sysctl(machdep.bios.diskinfo): Device not configured
> Disk: sd0       geometry: 1024/64/32 [2097280 Sectors]
> Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
>          Starting       Ending       LBA Info:
>  #: id    C   H  S -    C   H  S [       start:      size   ]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  0: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused
>  1: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused
>  2: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused
> *3: 0B    0   1  1 - 1023  63 32 [          32:     2097120 ] Win95 FAT-32
> 
> it seems that openbsd sees the fs as is FAT32 .. but i still don't get
> it why it's saying something like " Inappropriate file type or format
> " maybe I'm missing something .. any help from you guys out there ..as
> a workaround .. i've tried to format the usb drive via newfs_msdos (
> newfs_msdos /dev/sd0a ) it was able to format it and all but when it's
> time to put it on the xp box .. it says drive cannot be read .. I'm
> using OpenBSD 3.7 GENERIC#50
Not likely to be a formating issue. Again the error is a bit misleading.
> 
> any input is cool.... any answers .. will be awesome!! 
> 
> edgar
> 

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