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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:22:45 -0700
From:      Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold <info@paganlibrary.com>
To:        Barry Attai <peterrabbit@home.com>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting a DOS drive.
Message-ID:  <00100918254101.00315@gunnar.weygold.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20001009162939.00a72cf0@mail>
References:  <4.3.1.2.20001009162939.00a72cf0@mail>

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I also have two drives, both ATAPI:

1 - Win98
2 - FreeBSD 4.1

To mount the first from BSD I type:

mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /drive_c

I created a directory called /drive_c and simply mout it
with a line in /etc/fstab that reads:

/dev/ad0s1		/drive_c	msdos	rw	0	0	0


On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Barry Attai wrote:
> I have 2 drives in my machine, the first one is a 6 gig with 2 gig 
> partition for FreeBSD the second drive is a drive that has mp3files and 
> spare files basically a ATA drive.
> 
> I'd like to access that second drive from my BSD partition.  I've been 
> taking a look around my system and it recognizes the 2nd drive but doesn't 
> mount it.  I've checked fstab and it's not referenced in their.  Also would 
> there be the possibility of any file damage on the 2nd drive if I mounted it?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
> 
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