From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 01:51:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB6916A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:51:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53607.mail.yahoo.com (web53607.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDB8443D48 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:51:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flexble2547@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 40695 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Nov 2004 01:51:37 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=JI2UTFbYr8v14mHfYEXGtk9sOxeBOpNptequxbPaDws+xoo28PQDlwWteOIqg0L+0tFQjmRmlxTQ1tVeD6PiWXJpUKE++UrWPtGafgY6oiHSIEvwbQBy+2CYwRbweGAg3xK70eaiLsZ2oFMAcLkM3Ze4N7MNSF9DMlhhES+E36g= ; Message-ID: <20041123015137.40693.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.100.162.26] by web53607.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:51:36 PST Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:51:36 -0800 (PST) From: scott renna To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: <20041117180616.F12541@wonkity.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:51:38 -0000 Sorry took me so long to get back to this message, but here's what I got: fdisk /dev/da0s1: ******* Working on device /dev/da0s1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=19456 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=19456 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 104 (0x68),(unknown) start 1936028272, size 1851859059 (904228 Meg), flag 6e beg: cyl 116/ head 100/ sector 32; end: cyl 288/ head 101/ sector 46 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 121 (0x79),(QNX4.x 3rd part) start 1330184192, size 538976288 (263172 Meg), flag 79 beg: cyl 357/ head 32/ sector 43; end: cyl 0/ head 13/ sector 10 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 83 (0x53),(DM6 Aux3) start 538989391, size 1398362912 (682794 Meg), flag 20 beg: cyl 345/ head 32/ sector 19; end: cyl 324/ head 77/ sector 19 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 73 (0x49),(unknown) start 1394627663, size 21337 (10 Meg), flag 7e beg: cyl 87/ head 1/ sector 0; end: cyl 335/ head 78/ sector 2 The mount command I'm using is mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/external and it results in: mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/external: incorrect super block Any feedback on this would be very much appreciated. I have created the FAT32 patition on /dev/da0 using Partition magic. Scott Renna --- Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote: > > > Yeah...so suprise still not working. I was having > > issues with getting XP to format the usb drive as > > fat32. so i ran it through with partition magic, > > creating a fat32 partiton, but BSD isn't able to > read > > it. > > > > So now I'm at a loss. FreeBSD creates a FAT32 > > partition for me and Windows can't read it and now > the > > other way around it won't work. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Post the mount command you're using and the errors > you see, and it > should be fixable. Maybe also the output from fdisk > for that drive. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com