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Old 19th January 2009
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I've found with a lot of FAT-formatted USB drives, you have to manually run mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt so that GEOM can "taste" the drive and figure out how it is formatted/partitioned. After that, devd should add the device nodes to /dev. Then you re-run the mount command using the correct slice (/dev/da0s1, for example).

In theory, trying to do it with the slice info first should accomplish the same task, but I've found it to be hit-and-miss.

However, that only works if the kernel correctly detects the USB device, and correctly sets up the umass drive, such that a da(4) device is configured.

It also depends on how you format the drive, and whether or not it has a correct MBR. If possible, try doing the fdisk and newfs from FreeBSD, instead of from Windows.
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