Aaron J. Grier wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:00:06PM +0200, Brad du Plessis wrote:Aaron J. Grier wrote:I wonder if this is a partitionless "superfloppy", with the filesystem starting at the beginning of the device. are you able to mount with "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0d /mnt"?Yes, it mounts fine when forcing it to msdos.there you go. it has no partition table (MBR or BSD), so I wouldn't expect disklabel or mbrlabel to be able to make any sense of it.
Is this problem likely to be related to the lack of a partition table or is it a different issue (still on netbsd-4):
# mount -t msdos /dev/sd0a /usr/floppy # cd /usr/floppy # dd if=/dev/zero of=file.0 dd: file.0: Invalid argument 567553+0 records in 567552+0 records out 290586624 bytes transferred in 654.191 secs (444192 bytes/sec) # dd if=/dev/zero of=file.1 dd: file.1: Invalid argument 6785+0 records in 6784+0 records out 3473408 bytes transferred in 7.507 secs (462689 bytes/sec) # dd if=/dev/zero of=file.2 dd: file.2: Invalid argument 387969+0 records in 387968+0 records out 198639616 bytes transferred in 448.959 secs (442444 bytes/sec) # dd if=/dev/zero of=file.3 dd: file.3: Invalid argument 5889+0 records in 5888+0 records out 3014656 bytes transferred in 6.510 secs (463080 bytes/sec) # ls -l /usr/floppy/ total 484096 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 290586624 Jul 29 17:35 file.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3473408 Jul 29 17:36 file.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 198639616 Jul 29 17:44 file.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3014656 Jul 29 17:46 file.3