In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrey Koklin writes:
>Hi folks,
>
>Silly question, perhaps, but I wasn't able to figure out source of the
>problem myself...
>
>I used rarely magneto-optical disks to transfer data to/from Windows
>machine. For compatibility, disks used HDD FAT16 format.
>About a month ago the disks began to refuse to mount under -current:
Can you please:
dd if=/dev/da2 bs=64k | uuencode - foo | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not had an example of a non-512 byte disk with MBR on it until
now.
Poul-Henning
>
># cat /var/run/dmesg.boot |grep '^da2'
>da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
>da2: <FUJITSU M2513A 1700> Removable Optical SCSI-2 device
>da2: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 10)
>da2: 606MB (310352 2048 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 151C)
>
># fdisk /dev/da2
>******* Working on device /dev/da2 *******
>parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
>cylinders=151 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
>
>parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
>cylinders=151 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
>
>Media sector size is 2048
>Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
>Information from DOS bootblock is:
>The data for partition 1 is:
>sysid 6 (0x06),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB))
> start 32, size 309216 (603 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> end: cyl 150/ head 63/ sector 32
>The data for partition 2 is:
><UNUSED>
>The data for partition 3 is:
><UNUSED>
>The data for partition 4 is:
><UNUSED>
>
># mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1c /mnt
>mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1c: No such file or directory
>
>Indeed, there is only /dev/da2 node now.
>
>But how can I tell the devfs system to create needed nodes?
>
>
>--
>Regards,
>Andrey
>
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