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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:05:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mount madness
Message-ID:  <20010907120508.Y22109-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B98BBFA.9C71DB24@gactr.uga.edu>

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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, 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?

    Grab a copy of Partition Magic 5.x and convert it from FAT32x to
FAT32?

-- 
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer                   (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.


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