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From: Dona Hertel <dhertel@memes.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives antics
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 14:19:29 -0800
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I have a similar setup and problem. I have DOS on my first drive
and FreeBSD on my second drive. When I mounted my first drive, it gave
me the exact same warning message you got which I ignored (I guess not
a good thing to do in UNIX). I was able to read the directory alright,
but when I went to copy a file from the 1st drive(dos drive) to my 2nd
drive(FreeBSD), the hard drive took a suspiciously long time to do so.
So I tried stopping the process by hitting ctrl-z. This resulted in a
continous string of error messages about 'bad sectors'. I tried
re-booting back into FreeBSD only to find it had written over my
system files! So I ended up re-istalling FreeBSD from scratch.
(This is sort of a warning, if you do manage to read your directory,
whatever you do, DONT copy anything from it).
I'm wondering if this is a problem with the 'disk geometry' on 1st
drive not being correct? If so, how do you find out what the 'disk
geometry' is and how to correct it? Could this also be because my 1st
drive is 1.2 GB? In DOS, I needed a special driver in order to access
the full drive, do I need one for FreeBSD also?
Also, can someone recommend a book on FreeBSD that would be good for
someone with little experience in UNIX? I downloaded FreeBSD so I can
learn UNIX better but I'm finding the learning curve a little too steep
(and very fustrating at times). The online handbook seems to have a
quite a few unwritten parts and although the short 'tutorial' was
helpful, it doesn't go into enough details.
Dona Hertel
phiber0@xs4all.nl wrote:
>
> I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 system on my 2nd harddrive and DOS on my 1st harddrive.
> Of course it'd be nice if I could mount my DOS harddrive from BSD, so I created
> a mountpoint (/dos) and added an entry in /etc/fstab like this:
>
> /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos ro,noauto 0 0
>
> Now, when I want to mount my DOS drive (``mount /dos'') I get this disturbing
> message:
>
> ``Dec 20 21:44:42 mappy /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length''
>