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Full-Name: Antoine Beaupre
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To: Noor Dawod <noor@dns.comrax.com>
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Subject: Re: cannot mount IDE disk under FreeBSD-4.1.1-STABLE
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Send disklabel ad1 output.

You are trying to mount the wrong partition (c) on your drive. The c
partition is symbolic and represents the whole drive. You probably have
another partition to mount.

BTW, this does not belong to -stable, from what I understand of your
problem.

Am I right here, people?

A.

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Noor Dawod wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Our server was upgraded recently. At first, it had a SCSI disk. This was
> the boot disk. An additional IDE disk was connected as secondary backup
> disk.
> 
> Recently, as said, we upgraded the server by moving the SCSI disk from its
> booting status to be a regular disk, and installed instead an IDE disk
> that was set bootable. The old IDE disk was connected as secondary on the
> IDE port to the new IDE disk.
> 
> The problem is that I am not able to mount the old IDE now. Here are the
> info about the old disk:
> 
> ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=29826 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=29826 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:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
>         end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255
> 
> Observe what happens when I try to mount it:
> 
> root@dns :~# mount -t ufs /dev/ad1c /disk3
> mount: Operation not permitted
> 
> Also:
> 
> root@dns :~# mount -t ufs /dev/ad1 /disk3
> mount: Operation not permitted
> 
> Anyone can direct me what to do in order to mount this disk? By the way,
> the system identifies the disk and I can see it in dmesg.
> 
> Please help if you can. TIA. Noor.
> 
> 
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