From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 7 17: 6:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AD637B401 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15fVds-0007aP-02; Sat, 08 Sep 2001 12:06:36 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "'Robin P. Blanchard'" , Subject: RE: mount madness Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:06:39 +1200 Message-ID: <01b901c137fa$22c349e0$0a01a8c0@den2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <3B98BBFA.9C71DB24@gactr.uga.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 :: 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