> > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> Aloha > >> > >> I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple > >> distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd > >> on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 > >> for data sharing between all distros. > >> > >> When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the win98 slice with > >> "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /win98" without any trouble. > >> > >> When I attempt to mount slice 10 with "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s10 > >> /shared" I get the following error: > >> > >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s10: invalid argument. > >> > >> Slice 10 was formatted in win98 and scan disk was run. I have a > >> text file and two jpeg photos in the slice. > >> > > > > > > Only 4 primary slices are recognized. FreeBSD will not talk to a > > slice 10 and I don't think anything MS will either in a standard > > manner. That is why they came up with extended partitions. What > > did you use to create the extra slices? > > > > ////jerry > > Isn't ad?s5 and up used for the extended partitions? Which devices show > up in /dev ?
Well, I have never messed with MS extended "partitions" so I don't really know much details. My /dev only goes up to s4 for either ad or da. But, I am not surprised if mount_msdosfs thinks /dev/ad0s10 is not valid. I suppose the person could try creating those devices in /dev and see what falls down (or if it works). ////jerr > > Hendrik > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"