From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 15:34:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C86F37B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com (quarter.csl.sri.com [130.107.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD28743F13 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:34:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (beast.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.57]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0HNYZ2x004024; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:34:35 -0800 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beast.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0HNYXJZ000500; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@beast.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200301172334.h0HNYXJZ000500@beast.csl.sri.com> To: "Schrodinger" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ZIP Drive In-Reply-To: Message from "Schrodinger" of "Fri, 17 Jan 2003 23:25:54 GMT." <1056.159.134.75.93.1042845954.squirrel@webmail.konundrum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:34:33 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt > msdos: /dev/da0: Invalid argument > Why does this keep happening?? What am I doing wrong? In the past I found that the zip disks had some odd partitioning. I often found the primary partition to be the 4th partition on the disk (the first three being empty/non-existant/zero-size). The first thing that sticks out to me above though is that you are not attempting to mount a partition, but the raw disk. Try mounting one of: da0s1 da0s2 da0s3 da0s4 <-- I think it is probably this one. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message