how to mount USB fat32 thumbdrive?

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how to mount USB fat32 thumbdrive?

by Ray Arachelian :: Rate this Message:

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Hi I'm trying to mount a fat32 formatted USB thumbdrive on my PPC G4
Quicksilver which runs OBSD 4.4.

It sees the device as sd0, but when I try to mount it as type msdos it
says Device Not Configured.
i.e.

mount_msdos /dev/sd0a /mnt

(ditto if I specify -t msdos).  I'm able to run fdisk against
/dev/rdsk/sd0c and it sees it as a fat32 partition.

What should I do?


Re: how to mount USB fat32 thumbdrive?

by Todd T. Fries-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Try typing:

  disklabel sd0

Read the output.
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Penned by Ray Arachelian on 20090217 11:46.06, we have:
| Hi I'm trying to mount a fat32 formatted USB thumbdrive on my PPC G4
| Quicksilver which runs OBSD 4.4.
|
| It sees the device as sd0, but when I try to mount it as type msdos it
| says Device Not Configured.
| i.e.
|
| mount_msdos /dev/sd0a /mnt
|
| (ditto if I specify -t msdos).  I'm able to run fdisk against
| /dev/rdsk/sd0c and it sees it as a fat32 partition.
|
| What should I do?


Re: how to mount USB fat32 thumbdrive?

by Ray Arachelian :: Rate this Message:

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Ray Arachelian wrote:
> /dev/rdsk/sd0c
>  

Ooops, sorry for the Solaris-ism there. :-)


Re: how to mount USB fat32 thumbdrive?

by Ray Arachelian :: Rate this Message:

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Todd T. Fries wrote:
> Try typing:
>
>   disklabel sd0
>
> Read the output.
>  
Ah, ok.  So it's actually /dev/sd0i, not a.