--- Mark Thomas <thomas.s.mark@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/24/07, David Lord <netbsd@lordynet.org> wrote:
> > On 24 Mar 2007, at 8:41, Mark Thomas wrote:
> > Does /dev/sd0e already have an msdos filesystem present?
> 
> No it doesn't.
> thanks for the response though.
> 
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That's probably the problem (the 'invalid argument' is because the file
system is not valid), from your original message:

# /dev/sd0d:
type: SCSI
disk: mydisk
label: fictitious

The disklabel is just faked by the kernel and the MSDOS filesystem
probably isn`t useable (or really exists). You will likely have to
fdisk, disklabel, and then newfs partitions on the disk.

If you can read/write the raw partition e.g. dd if=/dev/sd0a
of=/dev/null count=4k bs=4k (should read 16 MB of data) then these
steps should make it mountable.


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