Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:07:11 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <monkey@crackula.com> To: xeon@gmx.ch Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mount_msdos Message-ID: <20020608140711.B9636@crackula.com> In-Reply-To: <20020608165118.A9369@skytrackercanada.com>; from david@skytrackercanada.com on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:51:18PM -0400 References: <20020608210152.3902ec7a.xeon@gmx.ch> <20020608165118.A9369@skytrackercanada.com>
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you can only mount from disks that are recognized. first of all: # dmesg |grep "^ad" that will tell you which IDE hdd's are there that you can mount from. you can't be mounting from disks that don't exist. verify that /dev/ad6 is actually a real drive in your system. that's an awful lot of IDE drives. once you've decided which drive you're actually going to mount from, you need to make sure you're choosing a valid slice. assuming that /dev/ad6 is the actual drive you want to mount from, the easiest thing to do (without looking into and interpreting partition schemes on the disk) is to just: # mount_msdos /dev/ad6s1 /mnt # mount_msdos /dev/ad6s2 /mnt etc. until something works. but try first to make sure you're using the right disk. -Adam David Banning took 0.6K on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:51:18PM -0400 to say: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:01:52PM +0200, Xeon wrote: > > I-ve got a problem with mount_msdos. A hd was given to me with a fat32-partition (@ least windoze told that) on it. I've mounted the partition successfully under w2k, but I didn't have any success in freebsd 4.5. I entered the following command: > > mount_msdos /dev/ad6s1 /mnt > > the error I got: > > mount_msdos: /dev/ad6s1: Invalid argument > > Are you sure you have the right /dev entry? > > My boot disk is /dev/ad0s1 and by /windows is /dev/ad1s1 -- "I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see I am serious!" -Mr. Sparkle Adam Weinberger monkey@crackula.com http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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