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Has anyone figured out how to mount a dos partition on an scsi
drive in Solaris 2.5 x86?

System particulars: c: drive is 300 mb ide with dos/windows.
d: is a 1600 mb scsi with a 500 mb dos partition and an 1100 mb
solaris partition. The system is booted off floppy for solaris.
The c: drive mounts fine, but I can't seem to access the scsi
dos partition from solaris. It is formatted correctly because
the dos side can read/write to it.

Thanks,
 Stephen Bodnar

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Quote:>>> ...
>>>     x86:  PCFS file systems are mounted from the hard disk  with
>>>     the command:

>>>          mount -F pcfs device-special:logical-drive directory-name
>>> ...
>>>     device-special specifies the special block device  file  for
>>>     the  diskette  (/dev/disketten)  or  the  entire  hard  disk
>>>     (/dev/dsk/cntndnp0).

In other words the correct answer is:

        mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t3d0p0:c /mnt

or the equivalent:

        mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t3d0p0:1 /mnt

BA

Quote:>Has anyone figured out how to mount a dos partition on an scsi
>drive in Solaris 2.5 x86?

>System particulars: c: drive is 300 mb ide with dos/windows.
>d: is a 1600 mb scsi with a 500 mb dos partition and an 1100 mb
>solaris partition. The system is booted off floppy for solaris.
>The c: drive mounts fine, but I can't seem to access the scsi
>dos partition from solaris. It is formatted correctly because
>the dos side can read/write to it.

In my case, this applies to both pcfs and s5 filesystems
(but not hsfs) - if the partitions are converted to solaris/ufs,
they work fine.  This applies to Solaris x86 2.1 through 2.5.

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|>
|> I (and a few others) have had no success mounting non-ufs
|> filesystems from controllers other than the first.
|> Symptom is that mount hangs unkillably, and other mounted
|> filing systems get damaged (I think because disk i/o stops
|> working properly), and system usually won't shut down (so
|> be warned!).
|>
|> In my case, this applies to both pcfs and s5 filesystems
|> (but not hsfs) - if the partitions are converted to solaris/ufs,
|> they work fine.  This applies to Solaris x86 2.1 through 2.5.

This would match my situation.  I have a system with an IDE CDROM
and SCSI HD's.  At first I could mount the DOS partitions on the
HD.  At that time the SCSI controller was c0 and the IDE was c1.

After return to manufacturer for replacement of a failed HD, the
system had the IDE as c0 and SCSI as c1.  No longer can I mount
the DOS partitions.

Any suggestions on reversing the situation?
It can't be as simple as a rename, right?

jl
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