Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 12/12/2007 7:50 AM Patrick Baldwin said the following:
> Trix Farrar wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>>> Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a
>>> FreeBSD 6.2 system.  This seemed like it should be relatively simple,
>>> but:
>>>
>>> webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
>>> mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block
>>>
>>
>> It's probably formatted msdosfs.  Have you tried:
>>
>> webmail# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
>>
>
> No, I hadn't, but that doesn't seem to work either:
>
> mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument
>
> webmail# dmesg
> umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <WD 1600BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C)
> mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry
> mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry 

Just a guess here but it's likely the drive was formatted as NTFS 
instead of FAT-32 if it's a recent drive.  Try mount_ntfs.

HTH,

Drew

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