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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news.UVic.CA!uglx!gtimuss From: gtimuss@uglx.UVic.CA (Gary Timuss) Subject: mounting MSDOS partition: invalid argument [NetBSD 1.0] Message-ID: <1995Feb3.081325.25989@sol.UVic.CA> Sender: gtimuss@uglx.uvic.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: uglx.uvic.ca Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 08:13:25 GMT Lines: 54 I have two Western Digital Caviar IDE Hard disks attached to my Dell XPS Pentium/90. wdbig as wd0 is 1GB, wd2420 as wd1 is 420MB. They are partitioned and disklabeled: wdbig a root b swap c=d full disk e home f usr wd2420 (/dev/wd1d) 989cyls.: a backup 4.2BSD 610-987 b not defined - c BSD portion 610-987 d full disk 0-987 e dos 0-609 disklabel wd1 identifies the 4.2BSD filesystem but calls the dos 'unknown'. Looking at the partition table, the field was set to '0', so I changed it to '8', but disklabel still thinks it is 'unknown'. DOS reads the partition as drive C: just fine when booting off A:. DOS fdisk is thoroughly confused (stating there is one primary non-dos partition of 25MB on the drive and nothing else, which is entirely untrue). pfdisk knows: 0 6 0 609 1 135 610 989 (none active) /etc/disktab defines wd2420 as above, using f{ilesystem}e=MSDOS /etc/fstab has: /dev/wd1d msdos ro /dev/wd1* are block devices. calling "mount /dev/wd1a /backup" mounts that partition just fine. Attempts to call "mount_msdos /dev/wd1e /dos" always return with an "invalid argument" error. It is complaining about /dev/wd1e as DOS floppies mount fine to /dos with mount_msdos. DOSFS is compiled into the NetBSD 1.0 kernal. Please e-mail or post if you have any ideas or experience similar problems. -- gtimuss@csc.uvic.ca CSCU Secretary <A HREF=http://www-engr.uvic.ca/~gtimuss/>Gary's Home Page</A>