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To: "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: mount madness
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:46:21 -0700
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I'm not sure I've ever run into fat32x before, and I've mounted fat32 
partitions created under win98 that were 30G under freebsd just fine.


On Thursday 06 September 2001 01:04 pm, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
> after much wailing and gnashing of teeth i've figured out
> what the problem is. i wasn't doing anything wrong.
> the command was fine.
>
> the damn harddisk that i've been assigned to retrieve data
> from is apparently fat32x. i can't mount the bastard period.
> no freebsd. no linux. nothing.
>
> windows 2000 can't even speak fat32x.
>
> ridiculous.
>
> any ideas on how to get this thing working?
> (other than building up a windwos98 box)
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> > root@quattro [~]# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/fat32
> > msdos: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument
> >
> >
> > what the hell am i doing wrong here?

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