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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Reading/Mounting Extended DOS partitions?
Date: 3 Jul 1995 10:13:53 +0200
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S. Lee <sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> wrote:
>I have more than 1 MS-DOS partition (i.e. 1 primary and several 'extended
>logical drives', in MS-DOS Fdisk terms), and I can mount C: fine under
>2.0.5, but is there a way to see the rest of the logical drives?
Did you try something like /dev/wd0s[4-7]? Perhaps you will first
have to MAKEDEV the device nodes, but i remember a comment of Bruce
Evans that it's supposed to work (even though the 2.0.5 documentation
denies this).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)