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> 
> Aloha
> 
> I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros.
> 
> When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the win98 slice with "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /win98" without any trouble.
> 
> When I attempt to mount slice 10 with "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s10 /shared" I get the following error:
> 
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s10: invalid argument.
> 
> Slice 10 was formatted in win98 and scan disk was run. I have a text file and two jpeg photos in the slice. 
> 

Only 4 primary slices are recognized.   FreeBSD will not talk to a slice 10
and I don't think anything MS will either in a standard manner.  That is
why they came up with extended partitions.   What did you use to create the 
extra slices?

////jerry

> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Robert
>