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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:17:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stunt Pope <markjr@shmooze.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reading a windows syquset 135 cartridge from freeBSD2.2.2
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210191652.29893Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802100139.UAA09832@shmooze.net>

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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Stunt Pope wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> We want to be able to read files from a SCSI syquest 135. The cartridges
> are going to be windows filesystems (i.e we want to read files
> that come off of a windoze box).
> 
> I tried
> 
> disklabel -Brw sd2 auto

Don't run disklabel if you want them Windoze-readable.   Format the disks
in the Windoze boxes then mount them with

mount -t msdos /dev/sd2 /mountpoint

and write away.

> At any rate, I could mount the drive, but it seems to have mounted it
> as a ufs filesys? All the files are gone, and it seems to be formatted
> now.

That's what you did to it -- it's a UNIX disk now.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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