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From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net>,
	"Zac M. Speidel" <zms@mediaone.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Problems with mounting ntfs file system..
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:37:47 -0500
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On Sunday 22 July 2001 20:41, Derek C. wrote:
> Um on my disk, my partitions are not starting at 0, I have ad0s1, ad0s2a
> ad0s3b...
>

Hmm...yes, you are right about that.  My bad.


> And wd is the prefix for certain scsi drives I believe (or is it the old
> pre-ata interface?) at any rate, I have wd devices, so I think he has the
> right device, just the wrong partition.
>


wd was the 3.x and earlier IDE driver.  

Josh


> Derek
>
> At 06:40 PM 7/22/2001, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> >On Sunday 22 July 2001 19:54, Zac M. Speidel wrote:
> > > Good evening freebsd users,
> > > Im writing with the *hope* that someone can offer me help. I am trying
> > > to mount a ntfs file system which is located on 'wd0s3'.. I am
> > > currently running 4.3-Release.
> > >
> > > When I try to "mount -t ntfs /dev/wd0s3" I get:
> > >
> > > # mount -t ntfs /dev/wd0s3 /mnt
> > > ntfs: /dev/wd0s3: Invalid argument
> > > #
> >
> >I've never had the need to mount any microsoft partition to FreeBSD, so I
> >don't know if I can really help, but the name of the disk should be ad0s3
> > in 4.3-RELEASE.  Also, make sure that NT is really on partition 4 of the
> > disk. Remember that FreeBSD starts counting at 0.
> >
> >Josh
> >
> > > I also have "options NTFS" in my kernel.. it still doesnt work.. I have
> > > no idea what might be the problem.. Perhaps I am leaving something out?
> > > Please help me if you might know what I am doing wrong..
> > >
> > > Sincerly,
> > > Zac Speidel

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