From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 14 19:34:31 2004 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 6AC9916A4CE for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 19:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02A443D4C for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 19:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from ms-mss-01 ([10.10.4.10])i4F2YSce002664 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 19:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from socal.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HXQ0023AHTG0Y@ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 19:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.10.6.203] (Forwarded-For: [24.25.245.126]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (mshttpd); Fri, 14 May 2004 16:34:28 -1000 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:34:28 -1000 From: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com To: Malcolm Kay Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: Jerry McAllister cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 02:34:31 -0000 - > On Saturday 15 May 2004 08:59, hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > > Aloha Again > > > > Okay, I had some time and since I had just installed Slackware, I > didn't> mind blowing it away. > > > > Using cfdisk from the Slackware CD, I re-partitioned slices 3 > and up. I > > now have a fat32 3Gig slice in primary partition/slice ad0s3. I > then have > > four 12 Gig slices (5 - 8) set up as linux partitions. Finally > slice 9 > > (ad0s9/hda9) is linux swap. > > > > Do you still have Fat32 in slice 1? > > It is my impression that MS will not allow more than 1 MS primary > slice. It > will force 2nd and subsequent MS file systems into extended > partitions. Of > course if you created "and formatted" the slice outside of MS then > the > comment is irrelevant. > > Posting the output of fdisk (on FreeBSD) might help. > > Malcolm > Aloha Malcolm Thanks for responding. Here is the output of fdisk when ran from FBSD: frankie# fdisk ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 11 (0x0b),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) start 63, size 10249407 (5004 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 637/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 10249470, size 40949685 (19994 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 638/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 12 (0x0c),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA)) start 51199155, size 5863725 (2863 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 5 (0x05),(Extended DOS) start 57062880, size 99233505 (48453 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 frankie# As you can see, I still have 98SE on partition 1 and partition 3 shows as fat32. Slackware was re-installed and is working on P-8 with linux-swap 0n P-9. Is this weird that I cannot mount ad0s3? Robert