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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:20:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Frank Seltzer <frankd@yoda.fdt.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems mounting a DOS drive
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On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Frank Seltzer wrote:

> I am having problems mounting a DOS drive under 2.1.5 . No matter what I
> type, I get the same error message:
> 
> % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2 /mnt
> msdos: mount: Invalid argument
> % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1 /mnt
> msdos: mount: Invalid argument
> % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1a /mnt
> msdos: mount: Invalid argument
> % /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s1e /mnt
> msdos: mount: Invalid argument

This means the source filesystem (/dev/wd2) is not a valid DOS partition,
at least as far as mount is concerned.

Be evil and run mount_msdos manually:

mount_msdos /dev/wd2 /mnt

Also try using the 'c' device:

mount_msdos /dev/wds1c /mnt

> This drive has Win95 on it and is from another machine and I need to
> retrieve some files from it and the machines are not networked.
> 
> The drive is jumpered as master and is on the second IDE connector on the
> motherboard by itself. The boot drive is SCSI.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

Floppies work fine too :-)

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major