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From: Antonio Navarro Navarro <webmaster@bemarnet.es>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mount_msdos fails on second hard drive
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:34:11 +0100
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To: Ryan Schutt <rschutt@vt.edu>

Ryan Schutt wrote:
 
> I am having trouble mounting my dos D: drive from freeBSD (2.0.5)
> 
> hard drive one is 730MB, and is C: in dos, and is where i boot win95/dos from.
> hard drive two is 730MB, and is partitioned into 300MB (dos D:) and the rest for
> freeBSD.  when I try 'mount_msdos /dev/wd1s1 /dosd', it says, 'mount_msdos: mount:
> invalid argument'  What am i doing wrong?  C: mounts fine using 'mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1
> /dosc'

Try with 'mount_msdos /dev/wd1s0 /dosd' (Be sure that the /dosd directory exists !!). If this 
doesn't works, reboot the FreeBSD and look the messages of start-up, looking for the message 
showing the information about the second disk.

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