Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:06:39 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> To: "'Robin P. Blanchard'" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>, <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: mount madness Message-ID: <01b901c137fa$22c349e0$0a01a8c0@den2> In-Reply-To: <3B98BBFA.9C71DB24@gactr.uga.edu>
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:: 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. Well, this in issue on which you could either spend hours, fiddling with a disk editor of some kind, or you could just plug the drive into a Win98 box, copy over whatever you want to keep and then put a more sensible file system on the drive. Unless you have a particular interest in unravelling the mysteries of esoteric Microsoft file systems, I would seriously consider the latter QAD method. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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