From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 17:39:28 2003 Return-Path: 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 4FDD337B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 17:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 902D943F75 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 58369 invoked by uid 1001); 16 May 2003 00:40:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:40:20 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: Andy Farkas Message-ID: <20030516004020.GB57614@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <20030515220200.55758.qmail@web20512.mail.yahoo.com> <20030516093209.T77647-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030516093209.T77647-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntfs error and fd0 error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 00:39:28 -0000 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 > > -- > > :{ andyf@speednet.com.au > > Andy Farkas > System Administrator > Speednet Communications > http://www.speednet.com.au/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"