USB Drive

[Vermilion]

When plugging in an external usb drive (HD or stick) I can choose "open media in filemanager" (from infobox in the right of the taskbar) but when trying nothing happens. I have manually to go to root/media/usbdrive to access the files.

Also when copy files to usb I get FOR EVERY FILE a single message that the permissions cannot be kept. Can I somehow deactivate this?

[drulavigne]

Is this on 9.0 or 9.1?

[q/pa]

I have a similar problem with my fresh installation of PCBSD 9.1 x64 on a Lenovo B560 laptop with nvidia 310M/Intel GMA HD graphics (optimus is deactivated in BIOS).

A plugged in external USB stick is not automatically mounted (manually checking for /media/usbdrive as Vermilion did turns up nothing).
Until now I only tested a few FAT32 formatted sticks (which are perfectly automounted by my PCBSD 9.0 x64 desktop computer installation).

In PCBSD 9.1 on my Lenovo I have to manually mount (as root) with

mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb

[drulavigne]

In which window manager(s) does it not automount?

[q/pa]

Oh, I see... This is a KDE thread, sorry.

My USB problem occurs in each of the installed WM's (KDE, LXDE, Gnome).

[Vermilion]

I use PC-BSD 9.1, still no idea?

I also have another USB-drive (formatted with FAT32) and I am not able to change permissions. I could create new files but could not save them!?

Now I installed updates but still no changes.

[BillC]

I have the same problem, I have tried two external USB hard disks, one WD and the other HP. Both are formatted ext4.
The machine is a Thinkpad T400, clean install of PC-BSD with just LXDE and XFCE installed.

With the device plugged in before boot:

Mount tray tool does not show it.

It does appear in left pane of file manager (PCManFM) but cannot be mounted (message: mount: /dev/da0s1: Operation not supported by device)

# dmesg |grep da0
...
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device - 0 outstanding, 4 refs
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device - 0 outstanding, 4 refs
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
...
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus5 target 0 lun 0
da0: <WD My Passport 0748 1015> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-6 device 
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 953837MB (1953458176 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121597C)

In terminal:

# mount -t ext4 /dev/da0s1 /usr/home/wjc721/usbdisk
mount: /dev/da0s1: Operation not supported by device

Plugging device in after boot

The mount tray tool does not detect the device

It does not appear in the left pane of the file manager

cat /var/log/messages
...
Mar 10 14:28:45 pcbsd-7176 kernel: ugen3.3: <Western Digital> at usbus3 (disconnected)
Mar 10 14:28:45 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0: at uhub3, port 1, addr 3 (disconnected)
Mar 10 14:28:45 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): passdevgonecb: devfs entry is gone
Mar 10 14:29:00 pcbsd-7176 kernel: ugen3.3: <Western Digital> at usbus3
Mar 10 14:29:00 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0: <MSC Bulk-Only Transport> on usbus3
Mar 10 14:29:00 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x4001
Mar 10 14:29:00 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0:5:0:-1: Attached to scbus5
Mar 10 14:29:07 pcbsd-7176 volmand: CREATE da0
Mar 10 14:29:07 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
Mar 10 14:29:07 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
Mar 10 14:29:07 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device - 0 outstanding, 4 refs
Mar 10 14:29:07 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
Mar 10 14:29:08 pcbsd-7176 volmand: DESTROY da0
Mar 10 14:29:08 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0 
Mar 10 14:29:08 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 10 14:29:08 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Retrying command
Mar 10 14:29:09 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0 
Mar 10 14:29:09 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 10 14:29:09 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Retrying command
Mar 10 14:29:09 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0 
Mar 10 14:29:09 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 10 14:29:09 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Retrying command
Mar 10 14:29:10 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0 
Mar 10 14:29:10 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 10 14:29:10 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Retrying command
Mar 10 14:29:10 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0 
Mar 10 14:29:10 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 10 14:29:10 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Error 5, Retries exhausted

# mount -t ext4 /dev/da0s1 /usr/home/wjc721/usbdisk
mount: /dev/da0s1: Operation not supported by device

All of the above was with the WD. The HP behaves similarly. Here are messages after plugging into the booted machine:

Mar 10 14:30:30 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0: at uhub3, port 1, addr 3 (disconnected)
Mar 10 14:30:30 pcbsd-7176 kernel: (pass2:umass-sim0:0:0:0): passdevgonecb: devfs entry is gone
Mar 10 14:32:00 pcbsd-7176 kernel: ugen3.3: <Hewlett-Packard> at usbus3
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0: <Bulk Only Interface> on usbus3
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0100
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 kernel: umass0:5:0:-1: Attached to scbus5
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus5 target 0 lun 0
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 kernel: da0: <Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00 > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 kernel: da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C)
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 volmand: CREATE da0
Mar 10 14:32:01 pcbsd-7176 volmand: CREATE da0s1
Mar 10 14:34:22 pcbsd-7176 su: wjc721 to root on /dev/pts/0

This is very frustrating!

But otherwise Kris, Dru and the rest of the PCBSD team, PCBSD is awesome and when these little issues are ironed out (nVidea included) - wow.

[BillC]

Sorry I just realised that this is a KDE thread - I searched for "mount usb" - but it seems that the problem occurs across DEs.
Bill

[GeoffShep]

I also have a failure to automount a USB drive. Mainly Gnome is my DE, but the tray app fails to detect USB.

Rgds

[q/pa]

Hello all,

maybe you find some answers here:

http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=17656