Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 12:38:23 +0100 From: garyj@frt.dec.com To: questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Subject: Re: Mounting DOS filesystems on a ZIP drive? Message-ID: <9602281138.AA18401@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Jason Kuri <jaykuri@oneway.com> of Wed, 28 Feb 96 02:12:26 GMT.
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jaykuri@oneway.com writes:
>
> Good Morning,
>
> I have a question that I've been wrestling with for a bit and was
> wondering if any of you could help. I have a ZIP drive (SCSI) and can
> newfs and mount zip disks if i do so in the ufs format. However, I am
> completely unable to mount msdos filesystems on that device. Every time
> I get something along the lines of 'mount_msdos: mount: Invalid
> argument' I have tried every variation I can think of on the mount command
> line... but have had no luck.
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated,
>
> Jay Kuri
>
I was scratching my head on this for awhile myself.
You have to mount using the correct slice. For example, on my sd2 disk
the dos stuff is on slice 3 (as shown by fdisk). So I had to:
mount -t msdos /dev/sd2s4 /dos
^ corresponds to fdisk slice 3
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