cd /dev and MAKEDEV ad1 then do a disklabel ad1 and see which partition it's
using and do the mount with the partition letter and see if that works.
On Friday 07 September 2001 05:22 am, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
> a bit more on "mount madness"
>
>
> Ok. I take a marvelously running Windows 2000 system and
> install the second harddisk that has windows98/fat32x on it.
>
> Bios recognizes drive correctly.
> Windows recognizes there's a drive, recognizes there's a partition
> on it and assigns it a drive letter; but doesn't think it's formatted
> and insists on me formatting the partition.
>
> If I put that disk as a second disk in my FreeBSD box I cannot mount it.
>
> root@quattro [~]# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/fat32
> msdos: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument
>
> If I put that disk in a Linux box, Linux cannot mount it either.
> Both FreeBSD and Linux see the partition scheme.
>
> If I boot with a Windows98 floppy I have full access to the drive.
>
> Jumpers and Bios setting all look fine.
>
> ideas?
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