Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-23 Thread Zeng Nan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:51:36PM -0800, scott renna wrote: > The mount command I'm using is mount /dev/da0s1 > /mnt/external and it results in: > > mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/external: incorrect super > block > Try mount_msdosfs for fat32 and mount_ntfs for ntfs -- Zeng Nan Simpl

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-22 Thread scott renna
Sorry took me so long to get back to this message, but here's what I got: fdisk /dev/da0s1: *** Working on device /dev/da0s1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=19456 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-17 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote: Yeah...so suprise still not working. I was having issues with getting XP to format the usb drive as fat32. so i ran it through with partition magic, creating a fat32 partiton, but BSD isn't able to read it. So now I'm at a loss. FreeBSD creates a FAT32 part

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-16 Thread scott renna
Yeah...so suprise still not working. I was having issues with getting XP to format the usb drive as fat32. so i ran it through with partition magic, creating a fat32 partiton, but BSD isn't able to read it. So now I'm at a loss. FreeBSD creates a FAT32 partition for me and Windows can't read it

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-12 Thread scott renna
nfs client...i like the sound of that. I could use Samba, but the idea is that I want to be able to grab files direct from BSD at USB2.0 rates. I guess I could use gigabit ethernet for this nfs client idea. it sounds like more of a challenge than samba. --- Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote: I created a FAT32 parition on the external drive from /stand/sysinstall and dropped some files onto it. I then moved it over to the win box to see if it could see it and sadly no. Is there a way to set up pseudo-drive assignments from FreeBSD on a FAT32 par

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread Brian McCann
Is this between 2 different PCs? Why not use Samba? Or, if you are daring, an NFS client for Windows. --Brian On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:58:23 -0800 (PST), scott renna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I was wondering if you all might be able to help on > this. I recently purchased an

FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-11 Thread scott renna
Hello list, I was wondering if you all might be able to help on this. I recently purchased an external hard drive case and dropped an IDE drive into it. It's great and all, except that the transfer speed is limited to 1Mb/s due to an error message that I had posted on the list a few days back(GE