Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:40:20 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntfs error and fd0 error Message-ID: <20030516004020.GB57614@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030516093209.T77647-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030515220200.55758.qmail@web20512.mail.yahoo.com> <20030516093209.T77647-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:38:57AM +1000 or thereabouts, Andy Farkas seemed to write:
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Marlon Corleone wrote:
>
> > i have a win98 and winXP installed and FreeBSd, win98
> > works fine i was able to read and write there, but i
> > have a problem in XP when i add in my fstab /dev/ad0s3
> > /XP ntfs 0 0
> >
> >
> > when i try to boot, i receive this error ntfs:
> > /dev/ad0s3: invalid argument
> >
> > as for my floppy device i received also this error
> > during bootup:
> >
> > msdos: /dev/fd0 = Input/output error
> >
> > though i have support in my kernel config file for my
> > ntfs: options NTFS and floppy
> >
> > # Floppy drives
> > device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq
> > 2
> > device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
> >
> >
> > this are the entries for my ntfs and floppy in my
> > fstab file:
> >
> > /dev/ad0s3 /XP ntfs rw
> > 0 0
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw
> > 0 0
> >
> > i hope anyone, can help me solving this problem,
> > thanks.
>
> To mount the ntfs partition, tell it to use the entire slice, ie
> /dev/ad0s3c.
>
> As for the floppy, you can't mount it without there being a floppy disk in
> the drive, which is usually not true after boot. Floppies are usually
> mounted only when you need to use it, then unmounted shortly afterwards.
>
> Comment out /dev/fd0 and rather mount it manually when needed.
Or change this line:
/dev/fd0 /floopy msdos rw 0 0
to this:
/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos,noauto rw 0 0
^^^^^^^
That way, you still get the simplicity (mount /floppy, by itself, works),
but it won't try to mount on boot.
HTH,
-- Josh
>
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>
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>
> Andy Farkas
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> Speednet Communications
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