Re: Problem mounting new Sandisk 1TB USB drive

From: Souji Thenria <mail_at_souji-thenria.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:25:32 UTC
On 1/10/24 04:40, Gary Aitken wrote:
> I have a new Sandisk 1TB thumb drive, USB-A on one end, USB-C on
> the other.
> If I plug it into my ubuntu laptop, it mounts fine and works.
> If I plug it into my fbsd box (13.2-RELEASE-p8 GENERIC amd64),
> it shows up:
> 
> usb_msc_auto_quirk: UQ_MSC_NO_GETMAXLUN set for USB mass storage device
> SanDisk SanDisk 3.2 Gen1 (0x0781:0x55b1)
> usb_msc_auto_quirk: UQ_MSC_NO_PREVENT_ALLOW set for USB mass storage
> device SanDisk SanDisk 3.2 Gen1 (0x0781:0x55b1)
> ugen7.2: <SanDisk SanDisk 3.2 Gen1> at usbus7
> umass0 on uhub6
> umass0: <SanDisk SanDisk 3.2 Gen1, class 0/0, rev 2.10/1.10, addr 2> on
> usbus7
> umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x8100
> umass0:8:0: Attached to scbus8
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus8 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <SanDisk SanDisk 3.2 Gen1 DL17> Removable Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI
> device
> da0: Serial Number A2003B9717F0A406
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 954240MB (1954283520 512 byte sectors)
> da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
> $ ls -lt /dev/da0*
> crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0xc7 Jan  9 20:59 /dev/da0s1
> crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0xcc Jan  9 20:59 /dev/da0
> 
> but it won't mount:
> 
> # mount.exfat /dev/da0s1 /mnt/memstick
> FUSE exfat 1.4.0 (libfuse2)
> fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory
> $ gpart show /dev/da0
> =>        63  1954283457  da0  MBR  (932G)
>           63        7489       - free -  (3.7M)
>         7552  1954275968    1  ntfs  (932G)
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or does the factory MS formatting
> need to be trashed and redone?
> 
> If it needs to be reformatted, what's the proper procedure for a
>> 32G device?  I show a newfs and newfs_msdos in /sbin, but no 
> newfs_ntfs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary
> 

Hey Gary!

Based on your commands, you try to mount an NTFS partition using
'mount.exfat', which won't work. You need to use 'ntfs-3g' for that.

Regards,
Souji

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Souji Thenria