hal signal 11 when external USB disk added?

[Kevin Oberman]

This really needs to be documented (FAQ?). It explains some problems
I've seen (with a WD Passport, too), but I was unaware of the
limitation. Spaces are pretty common in FAT and NTFS volume labels.
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> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:44:53 -0400
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> Mike Harding wrote:
> > I got one of those little USB WD passport drives to see if I could use
> > it for external backup.  As soon as I plugged it in, HAL dies (sorry
> > HAL!).  Any ideas?
> 
> Volume labels that contain spaces are not supported.  Relabel the disk 
> so that there are no spaces, and it should work.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > Mar 16 19:17:50 bsd kernel: umass0: <Western Digital External HDD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2> on uhub4
> > Mar 16 19:17:50 bsd root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1058 product 0x0702 bus uhub4
> > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0: <WD 2500BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device 
> > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: da0: 238475MB (488397168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30401C)
> > Mar 16 19:17:51 bsd kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/WD Passport.
> > Mar 16 19:17:53 bsd kernel: pid 98596 (hald), uid 560: exited on signal 11
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