On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 ash.garg@iname.com wrote:

=> How would I go about mounting a MSDOS/Win95 disk SCSI hard disk? I
=> have tried the following:
=>
=> mount -t msdos /dev/rz2 /msdos
=>
=> but it gives me an error:
=>
=> Operation not supported by this device.
=>
=> I have done the following: disklabel -e I rz2 and set partition
=> (d,e,f,g) alternatively to
=>
=> d: 2050860      0      MSDOS
=>
=> as well as (assuming track 1 is not used by dos/win95)
=>
=> d: 2050803      57     MSDOS
=>
=> and it still does not work. Same error message. This also seems to
=> corrupt the SCSI hard disk.
=>
=> Any hints? I used Norton Diskedit to look at the first sector on
=> the SCSI hardisk and it looked more like a DOS bootsector than a
=> partition table. Is this supposed to be correct?

I believe you need to use "mbrlabel" to fake a NetBSD disklabel when
using MS-DOS-produced hard disks, though I've not done it myself.  See
man mbrlabel for details.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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