To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject: mounting MSDOS partition: invalid argument [NetBSD 1.0] 
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
In-Reply-To: <1995Feb3.081325.25989@sol.UVic.CA>
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 08:13:25 GMT


I have two Western Digital Caviar IDE Hard disks attached to
my Dell XPS Pentium/90.  wdbig as wd0 is 1GB, wd2420 as wd1
is 420MB.

They are partitioned and disklabeled:
wdbig
a	root
b	swap
c=d	full disk
e	home
f	usr

wd2420 (/dev/wd1d) 989cyls.:
a	backup 4.2BSD	610-987
b	not defined	-
c	BSD portion	610-987
d	full disk	0-987
e	dos		0-609

disklabel wd1 identifies the 4.2BSD filesystem
but calls the dos 'unknown'.  Looking at the partition table,
the field was set to '0', so I changed it to '8', but disklabel
still thinks it is 'unknown'.  DOS reads the partition as
drive C: just fine when booting off A:.  DOS fdisk is thoroughly
confused (stating there is one primary non-dos partition of 25MB
on the drive and nothing else, which is entirely untrue).

pfdisk knows:
0	6	0	609
1	135	610	989
(none active)

/etc/disktab defines wd2420 as above, using f{ilesystem}e=MSDOS
/etc/fstab has:
	/dev/wd1d	msdos ro
/dev/wd1* are block devices.

calling "mount /dev/wd1a /backup" mounts that partition just fine.


Attempts to call "mount_msdos /dev/wd1e /dos" always return with
an "invalid argument" error.  It is complaining about /dev/wd1e as
DOS floppies mount fine to /dos with mount_msdos.

DOSFS is compiled into the NetBSD 1.0 kernal.


Please e-mail or post if you have any ideas or experience similar
problems.
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gtimuss@csc.uvic.ca
CSCU Secretary
<A HREF=http://www-engr.uvic.ca/~gtimuss/>Gary's Home Page</A>
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gtimuss@csc.uvic.ca
CSCU Secretary
<A HREF=http://www-engr.uvic.ca/~gtimuss/>Gary's Home Page</A>