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by **Pavan Ramara** » Fri, 27 Dec 1996 04:00:00

Hello!

I have a Jaz-disk which was originally formatted for DOS. When, I initally
tried to mount this using:

#mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s0 /mnt

It said "mount: No such file or address"

So, I changed the label name on it using the 'sformat', hoping the mount
command will understand it. And, it looked like the format options,
volume-label and other options were left intact on this jaz-disk . Now, when I
try mounting this DOS-formatted disk (with a different label name) on my
Solaris using ..

#mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s0 /mnt

.. it gives this error ..
"pcfs: disk not in DOS format!
mount: Invalid argument"
.. and quits.

Now for my question, is there any way I can dos-format this jaz-disk?
Unfortnately, I do not have the Jaz tools to DOS-format them on the
PC. So, is there any way I can DOS-format them on my Solaris 2.5 machine.

Did anyone do this before?

Any help, suggestions regarding this will be greatful

Thanks
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by **Shawn Andre** » Fri, 27 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> Hello!

> I have a Jaz-disk which was originally formatted for DOS. When, I initally
> tried to mount this using:

> #mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s0 /mnt

> It said "mount: No such file or address"

> So, I changed the label name on it using the 'sformat', hoping the mount
> command will understand it. And, it looked like the format options,
> volume-label and other options were left intact on this jaz-disk . Now, when I
> try mounting this DOS-formatted disk (with a different label name) on my
> Solaris using ..

> #mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s0 /mnt

> .. it gives this error ..
> "pcfs: disk not in DOS format!
> mount: Invalid argument"
> .. and quits.

How the hell do you expect a dos filesystem to have a "s0" label .
I dont know how it is with sparc computers but under solaris_intel
you have to use the "p0" instead .
if using solaris_x86 do the following :

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t4d0p0:c /mnt
That should do it
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