Solved ntfs SD Card on FreeBSD 12.2

wardbones · Dec 12, 2020

Hi, everybody. I'm thinking this is going to be much simpler than it seems but I can't figure it out.

ntfs-3g is installed. When I plug and unplug the card, nothing shows in /var/log/messages and gpart doesn't show it. I just had Ubuntu on this Alienware 14 and I know the card is good.

I can't imagine FreeBSD doesn't support SD Cards with Raspberry Pi being so popular among users.

Maybe I'm just not finding the right /dev/ entry? I couldn't find it in DuckDuckGo or on here. Thank you.

Sevendogsbsd · Dec 12, 2020

It’s been a while but I believe “fuse” has to be enabled before this will work. Can’t remember whether in /boot/loader.conf or /etc/rc.conf though.

monwarez · Dec 12, 2020

If nothings show up at dmesg that may indicate that you does not have a driver for your sd card reader.
If you get a Realtek card readers you should give a try at sysutils/rtsx-kmod (see https://github.com/hlh-restart/rtsx)

wardbones · Dec 12, 2020

Sevendogsbsd said:
It’s been a while but I believe “fuse” has to be enabled before this will work. Can’t remember whether in /boot/loader.conf or /etc/rc.conf though

monwarez said:
If nothings show up at dmesg that may indicate that you does not have a driver for your sd card reader.
If you get a Realtek card readers you should give a try at sysutils/rtsx-kmod (see https://github.com/hlh-restart/rtsx)

Hey! You got it. I had forgotten to load fuse (it's loader.conf). And the rt driver worked! Gpart found it and I could very simply mount the device.

Thanks so much!

wardbones · Dec 12, 2020

wardbones said:
Hey! You got it. I had forgotten to load fuse (it's loader.conf). And the rt driver worked! Gpart found it and I could very simply mount the device.

Thanks so much!

I did have to do one thing just to have it here for people:

Code:

kldload rtsx