Mounting MS-DOS filesystems

1998-02-17 Thread Gregory B . Dickinson 
I am running 1.3.1 on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5120.  I have 2 hard drives, pri 
master is 1.2gb, pri
slave is 630mb.  The primary master is Linux 100%, except for a Boot Manager 
Partition.  The
second drive is DOS 6.22, 1 big partition.  Whenever I attempt to mount the 
secondary drive
under Linux (/dev/hdb) I get a message that there is not a valid MS-DOS 
filesystem on the drive,
and about the only other message that I get that is easily decipherable is 
Transaction block
size=512 or something to that effect.  

Two questions:

1.)  Is that transaction block the same thing as a cluster size under DOS?

2.)   (the most obvious)  What am I doing wrong?

The device and mount point, etc are in the /etc/fstab file, which I can send if 
need be.

Thanks in advance,

Greg Dickinson


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Re: Mounting MS-DOS filesystems

1998-02-17 Thread dg 
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Gregory B.Dickinson wrote:

 I am running 1.3.1 on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5120.  I have 2 hard drives,
 pri master is 1.2gb, pri slave is 630mb.  The primary master is Linux
 100%, except for a Boot Manager Partition.  The second drive is DOS 6.22,
 1 big partition.  Whenever I attempt to mount the secondary drive under
 Linux (/dev/hdb) I get a message that there is not a valid MS-DOS
 filesystem on the drive, and about the only other message that I get that
 is easily decipherable is Transaction block size=512 or something to that
 effect.  
[...snip...]
 2.)  (the most obvious)  What am I doing wrong? 

I know, this question is stupid, but did you use /dev/hdb or /deb/hdb1,
because with /dev/hdb you will access the whole hard disk, and when you want
to mount a filesystem (DOS partition) you have to use /dev/hdb1.

Bye

Daniel

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