From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 14:00:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23807 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23736 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA16381; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:30:04 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA18962; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:30:03 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980211083003.17646@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:30:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Paul T. Root" , Stunt Pope Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading a windows syquset 135 cartridge from freeBSD2.2.2 References: <199802100139.UAA09832@shmooze.net> <199802101411.IAA00533@horton.iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199802101411.IAA00533@horton.iaces.com>; from Paul T. Root on Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 08:11:55AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 February 1998 at 8:11:55 -0600, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Stunt Pope said: >> >> We want to be able to read files from a SCSI syquest 135. The cartridges >> are going to be windows filesystems (i.e we want to read files >> that come off of a windoze box). >> >> I tried >> >> disklabel -Brw sd2 auto > > This creates a freebsd slice on the disk. Paul has already explained to you that you have overwritten your data. This is obviously not what you intended. I'd like to know how this misunderstanding came to be, and if there's anything we can do to avoid it happening to somebody else. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message