On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:07:14AM -0700, scott worley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to BSD, been using linux.
> 
> Install NetBSD 1.5 on a SCSI only system, exception is an ATAPI LS120 drive 
> as master on the first IDE channel.  No other IDE devices are present.
> 
> I tried using this drive to move data from my linux system to BSD but I don't 
> fully understand the disklabel issues.
> 
> What I have observed under linux is:
> 1. Linux fdisk reports a "bad" partition table with four primary partitions 
> on fresh pre-formatted LS120 media.
> 2. To mount a pre-formatted disk or one that's been formatted under windows I 
> must use device /dev/hda not hda1.
> 3. Therefore, I always use linux fdisk to delete the current partitions and 
> create either one msdos or ext2 partition which can then be mounted as hda1 
> with no problems.
> 
> After reading the BSD disklabel man pages and a couple of your FAQ's about 
> zip drives etc. I still can't get LS120 media mounted.  The disk in question 
> is formatted with one msdos partition via linux and is good, I can read/write 
> under linux.
> 
> This is the output of disklabel sd0:
> # /dev/rsd0d:
> type: ATAPI
> disk: 7XABB0017898
> label: fictitious
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 32
> tracks/cylinder: 8
> sectors/cylinder: 256
> cylinders: 963
> total sectors: 246528
> rpm: 720
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0		# microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0	# microseconds
> drivedata: 0 
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   d:   246528        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 962)
>   e:   246496       32      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*- 962)
>   h: -859853824        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 
> 13418411)

Looks good to me. You should be able to:
mount -t msdos /dev/sd0e /mnt

But it looks like linux's fdisk created a bogus partition in addition to the
good one.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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