<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1129455469">Doh! I just realized that when I went to re-install PCBSD I inadvertently selected the USB drive which explains why my system appeared to be untouched - it was.<br><br>I never even looked at the first drive in the drop down box - just assumed it would be the internal hard drive, adx. But instead it defaulted to my USB backup drive and of course overwrote everything that was there.<br><br>I guess I would recommend trying to idiot-proof the installation a bit more by making sure the default drive is internal (adx and not dax) and/or changing from a drop down box to radio buttons where none is selected as default to guard against something like this happening.<br><br>...Jeff<br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 3/29/10, Brodey Dover <i><doverosx@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);
margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Brodey Dover <doverosx@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] USB Hard Drive Issues<br>To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing@lists.pcbsd.org><br>Date: Monday, March 29, 2010, 12:53 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I actually
have a bug submitted to the FreeBSD fellows. There was some<br>recoding going on with FreeBSD 8.0 and how it reads/handles file<br>systems on USB devices. Perhaps if anyone is willing, they can try<br>-CURRENT.<br><br>On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Kris Moore <<a rel="nofollow">kris@pcbsd.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On 03/29/2010 14:51, Mike Bybee wrote:<br>><br>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Ian Robinson <<a rel="nofollow">fitchkendall@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:00 PM, <<a rel="nofollow">testing-request@lists.pcbsd.org</a>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> Every time I boot up, the media folder? has an additional directory<br>>>> called disk, disk1,
and so on - now up to 9.? None of them is the USB drive.<br>>><br>>> It has been standard behavior that when you plug in a USB memory stick,<br>>> PCBSD creates a directory in /media to use as a mount point. The mount<br>>> point remains after you disconnect the memory stick. Each time you plug in<br>>> the same or another USB memory stick, the mount point increments (disk,<br>>> disk1, . . . disk9). The USB memory stick you plugged in will be mounted at<br>>> the highest number if you were to look at it in the "regular" Dolphin<br>>> directory tree. Because the previous mount points (disk, disk1) are passed<br>>> over, they should be empty. If you delete the mount points, the increment<br>>> sequence returns to disk, then disk1, etc.<br>>><br>>> It was also standard behavior that after you plugged in a USB memory<br>>> stick, camera, etc., you
could see it in "Places" and you could<br>>> "right-click" on the device icon in "Places" and choose to "Unmount<br>>> <Device_Name>" to safely remove it.<br>>><br>>> Here are some observed variations:<br>>><br>>> PCBSD 7.0.1 Behavior:<br>>><br>>> For an additional -- but unmounted (not listed in /etc/fstab) internal<br>>> hard drive -- "Places" shows a drive icon. Double clicking on the drive<br>>> icon mounts the drive to /media/<new_mount_point_name>. Right clicking on<br>>> the drive icon in "Places" and selecting "Unmount <Device_Name>, the drive<br>>> is unmounted and the /media/<new_mount_point_name> is removed from the<br>>> /media directory.<br>>><br>>> A USB hard disk (Seagate Free Agent 500 GB) formatted ntfs is not<br>>> auto-recognized. You have to mount it manually. An icon shows up
in<br>>> "Places" after mounting. You can right click and select "Unmount FreeAgent"<br>>> but I get an error message at the bottom of the Dolphin window that says:<br>>><br>>> " . . . org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.NotMountedByHal: Device to<br>>> unmount is not in /media/.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by HAL."<br>>><br>>> If i '# umount /mnt/<mount_point>, then the device icon disappears from<br>>> "Places."<br>>><br>>><br>>> PCBSD 8.0 Behavior.<br>>><br>>> Jeff said: "It used to show a UFS volume in the places section of<br>>> Dolphin, but now shows 4 USB drives and none of them represent the content<br>>> of the drive . . ."<br>>><br>>> My PCBSD 8.0 behaves in the opposite fashion -- but is equally bizarre. I<br>>> get only one icon in "Places" but I get four new mount points in /media.<br>>> But, before
I got to that point, note that the drive (Segate Free Agent 500<br>>> GB) did not auto-recognize. I had to mount it in terminal to a mount point<br>>> I created (#mount_ntfs -o large /dev/da2s1 /media/USB_HD). Once that<br>>> command was issued, then the drive icon appeared in "Places" and four new<br>>> mount points appeared under /media (FreeAgent Drive, FreeAgent Drive-1,<br>>> FreeAgent Drive-2, FreeAgent Drive-3). The four new mount points were<br>>> empty.<br>>><br>>> In the Dolphin file tree, my designated mount point for the drive<br>>> (/media/USB_HD) also over-reported the 500 Gb drive properties at 7.3 TiB (I<br>>> wish).<br>>><br>>> Right clicking on the FreeAgent icon in "Places" did not produce a choice<br>>> for "Unmount FreeAgent".<br>>><br>>> Clicking on the FreeAgent icon in "Places" caused yet another mount point<br>>> to
appear in /media, and repeatedly clicking continued to increment the<br>>> mount points with each click with each new mount point empty of contents.<br>>><br>>> I did a umount from terminal without incident, but it did not remove the<br>>> FreeAgent icon from "Places." However, after the umount and the physical<br>>> unplugging of the USB connector cable, then the FreeAgent icon disappeared.<br>>><br>>> Next, when re-plugging the USB cable into the computer, the drive (1)<br>>> appeared automatically in "Places", (2) raised a "Devices Recently Plugged<br>>> In" window, which said "2 somethings are available". Clicking that last<br>>> message got me to (3) pop up window letting me know "A new device has been<br>>> detected. What do you want to do." Clicking on "Open in Dolphin" created<br>>> three new mount point in /media but otherwise did nothing
else.<br>>><br>>> I mounted the drive in terminal, and yet another three mount points showed<br>>> up.<br>>><br>>> How's that for behavior!<br>>><br>>><br>>> Ian Robinson<br>>> Salem, Ohio<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Testing mailing list<br>>> <a rel="nofollow">Testing@lists.pcbsd.org</a><br>>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing">http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing</a><br>>><br>><br>> I have a similar FreeAgent USB drive that I can't use at all with PC-BSD due<br>> to behaviors like above. I get an added prize, however, in the form of the<br>> machine rebooting itself if I try to copy anything to or from the
drive.<br>> Dmesg produces no errors beyond the USB notification.<br>><br>> Under Win 7 on the same machine, the drive operates fine.<br>><br>> --<br>> Thanks,<br>> Mike Bybee<br>><br>> Most of the drives not being detected issues sound like HAL bugs, but I'm<br>> not sure how much effort should go into fixing it, since HAL is now<br>> depreciated and will be replaced by DeviceKit here soon:<br>><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit</a><br>><br>> Mike,<br>><br>> Your specific issue with a system reboot when copying sounds like a bug in<br>> the USB stack though. I would report that via FreeBSDs PR system, or<br>> directly on the USB mailing list, since thats something we need fixed on our<br>> end :)<br>><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb">http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb</a><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Kris Moore<br>> PC-BSD Software<br>> iXsystems<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Testing mailing list<br>> <a rel="nofollow">Testing@lists.pcbsd.org</a><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing">http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing</a><br>><br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>Testing mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow">Testing@lists.pcbsd.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing">http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table><br>