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Old 12th March 2010
amorphousone amorphousone is offline
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i was transferring data between 2 usb drives. rebooted at one point, could mount one drive fine, but not the other (the case on 2 different computers, macppc OBSD 4.6 and i386 OBSD 4.6).

at connection:
Code:
umass0 at uhub5 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Seagate FreeAgentDesktop" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 6
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <Seagate, FreeAgentDesktop, 100F> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 953869MB, 512 bytes/sec, 1953525168 sec total
disklabel says:
Code:
$ sudo disklabel sd0
# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: FreeAgentDesktop
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 121601
total sectors: 1953525168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
boundstart: 0
boundend: 1953525168
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  c:       1953525168                0  unused
  i:       1953525105               63  4.2BSD   2048 16384   16
but mount yields:
Code:
$ sudo mount /dev/sd0i /mnt/
mount_ffs: /dev/sd0i on /mnt: Invalid argument
again, my other drive mounts fine.

thanks in advance!
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Old 12th March 2010
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i was transferring data between 2 usb drives. rebooted at one point, could mount one drive fine, but not the other...
  • Was the reboot done while the transfer was still taking place?
Or...
  • Were both drives fully umount(8)'ed at the time of the reboot?
And...
  • Is the drive not mount(8)'ing correctly now the target drive from the previous transfer?
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thank you for the response ocicat. your question #2 may have answered my question.

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* Was the reboot done while the transfer was still taking place?
no

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* Were both drives fully umount(8)'ed at the time of the reboot?
i did not manually unmount them, assuming that that all disks were unmounted at shutdown. is this not the case?

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* Is the drive not mount(8)'ing correctly now the target drive from the previous transfer?
the unmountable disk was the source disk.

so, if my above assumption has been a gross error, is there a way to salvage the data on the disk?
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Old 12th March 2010
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You cannot share UFS/FFS filesystems betweens systems of different byte order (endian), so i386 and macppc are incompatible.

I'm not sure of the limitations of ext2, but you may try that.. alternatively you may need to use FAT32 with tape archives.
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