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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 1996 14:47:19 +0200 (IST)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        rose <velvet@gbso.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: scsi hard drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961004144502.1416A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <3254F8DB.883@gbso.net>

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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, rose wrote:

> i have installed a second hard drive on my scsi chain and they both show
> up during boot up.
> my freebsd shows up as drive d: but does not show a drive letter when i
> enter fdisk from c:(boot disk) also my cdrom(three changer) give me the
> drive letters of d,e,f.
That's absolutly normal. DOS cannot see FreeBSD slices (just like it 
won't give a letter to a drive that has HPFS or NTFS on it).

> i'm having a time getting to the second hard drive(the second drive does
> not have a dos slice) i wanted it to be purely bsd. the first drive
> which i'm working on will be used to store file(pictures) for later
> access from the second drive.
If I understand correctly, all you need is to access files that are 
created under DOS from FBSD. The easiest way would be to mount the DOS 
disk under FreeBSD. FreeBSD *can* access FAT slices (which is what DOS 
uses). Try man mount_msdos.

Hope this helps.

> i'm new to unix and i want to go back and forth between the two drives
> 
> thanks
> nathan
> 
> P.S. also on my boot drive i'm running win95, and everything seens to be
> working but i can not find my modem, even under dos.
> 
Nadav



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