On Saturday 26 May 2001 12:11, you wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2001, Murray Armfield wrote:
> > 	Just a quick one. I have a Windoze disk with two partitions. The
> > first one NTFS and the second FAT. What device file should I be using
> > to mount the FAT partition. I can mount the NTFS one from wd0e,
> > however wd0f,g,h etc doesn't work trying to mount the FAT partition.
>
> What does "fdisk wd0" and "disklabel wd0" show?

no probs...

NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
 
BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1024 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
 
Partition table:
0: sysid 7 (OS/2 HPFS or NTFS or QNX2 or Advanced UNIX)
    start 63, size 8289477 (4047 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder  515, head 254, sector 63
1: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
    start 8289540, size 2104515 (1027 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder  516, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder  646, head 254, sector 63
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>

>
> And then show us the command (and any resulting messages) you used to try
> to mount the FAT partition.

here goes...
nine% su
Password:
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0a /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0a on /mnt: Device not configured
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0b /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0b on /mnt: Device not configured
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0c /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0c on /mnt: Device not configured
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0d /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0d on /mnt: Invalid argument
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0e /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0e on /mnt: Invalid argument
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0f /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0f on /mnt: Device not configured
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0g /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0g on /mnt: Device not configured
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0h /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0h on /mnt: Device not configured
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0i /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0i on /mnt: Device not configured
nine# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0j /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/wd0j on /mnt: Device not configured

the wd0e partition can be mounted as ntfs.

Any light on this would be great.

Regards,
	Murray Armfield