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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12405 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3235 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: mikebo@MCS.COM (Michael Borowiec) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1: Can't mount PCFS filesystem Date: 17 Aug 1994 01:03:15 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Lines: 42 Message-ID: <32s973$d6k@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com Keywords: pcfs mount dos filesystem I have a 486DX50 running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. The system is configured with an AHA1542B and two SCSI disk drives. When I want to run UNIX, I change the internal (DOS) drive to SCSI ID 1, power up the external (UNIX) disk as SCSI ID 0, and boot UNIX. When I want to run MS-DOS, I change the internal drive to SCSI ID 0, power off the UNIX disk and boot up DOS. Works GREAT! Now... When I'm running FreeBSD, I want to mount the DOS partition from SCSI ID 1 (/dev/sd1?) but this doesn't work. The man page on mount-pcfs seems to imply that this will not work unless there is a FreeBSD label on the disk and the DOS partition is SHARING the same disk with UNIX! Why not?! Note that trying to mount /dev/sd1d yields a different error message than /dev/sd1[abc]. Perhaps 'd' indicates DOS partition's position in the DOS partition table? # mount -t pcfs /dev/sd1a /dos sd1: no disk label [bright/from-the-kernel] mount: Device not configured # mount -t pcfs /dev/sd1d /dos sd1: no disk label [bright/from-the-kernel] mount: Invalid argument I think using seperate disks for DOS and UNIX is a MUCH better solution than sharing, and is wonderfully easy using SCSI. Above all, I want to avoid trashing my DOS partition (which I have done many times playing with various PC UNICES). This scenario seems to have been ignored. Now that I have loaded up my DOS disk, is there a work around or a fix available? I don't believe I can re-label my DOS disk without trashing the DOS partition. I believe BSD386 from Berkeley Software Design got this right... what gives? - Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec All tied to their things, mikebo@MCS.COM they are netted by the strings... Free to flutter, in memory of their wasted wings... P.Gabriel