From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 7 6:10:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web.sitecontent.com (adsl-216-101-253-45.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.101.253.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657D837B403 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 06:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by web.sitecontent.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f87DAmw04665; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 06:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fallous@warped.com) Message-Id: <200109071310.f87DAmw04665@web.sitecontent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: fallous To: "Robin P. Blanchard" , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount madness Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 06:10:48 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3B98BBFA.9C71DB24@gactr.uga.edu> In-Reply-To: <3B98BBFA.9C71DB24@gactr.uga.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG cd /dev and MAKEDEV ad1 then do a disklabel ad1 and see which partition it's using and do the mount with the partition letter and see if that works. On Friday 07 September 2001 05:22 am, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > a bit more on "mount madness" > > > Ok. I take a marvelously running Windows 2000 system and > install the second harddisk that has windows98/fat32x on it. > > Bios recognizes drive correctly. > Windows recognizes there's a drive, recognizes there's a partition > on it and assigns it a drive letter; but doesn't think it's formatted > and insists on me formatting the partition. > > If I put that disk as a second disk in my FreeBSD box I cannot mount it. > > root@quattro [~]# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/fat32 > msdos: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument > > If I put that disk in a Linux box, Linux cannot mount it either. > Both FreeBSD and Linux see the partition scheme. > > If I boot with a Windows98 floppy I have full access to the drive. > > Jumpers and Bios setting all look fine. > > ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message