accessing dos partitions with wd7000fasst scsi, isc unix 2.2, dos[345]

accessing dos partitions with wd7000fasst scsi, isc unix 2.2, dos[345]

Post by gregory d moncrea » Mon, 16 Sep 1991 04:19:10



hi,

        i'm running isc unix 2.2 on a generic 386. my disk is a micropolis
300MB which i've formatted into a 100MB dos and a 200MB unix partition. my
controler card is the western digital 7000fasst. i'm trying to mount the
dos partition under unix. i've gone through the sst manual (v3.36) and
manual created the nodes for additional dos partitions. i've tried the
setdos utility and every permutation of mount but am unable to access the
dos partition. my only clue is that i get the error message about unix
being unable to recognize the file system type. could isc be unable to
recognize my dos format? the disk that i booted from to do the initial sst
partitioning was dos4. i then used the dos5 upgrade for the dos partition.
my roomate seems to think that unix only recognizes dos3.3, can anyone offer
a authoritative answer on this? also,is there an isc upgrade, patch, etc
that allows use of dos[45] if that is the case?

thank you for your time and attention
greg moncreaff

 
 
 

accessing dos partitions with wd7000fasst scsi, isc unix 2.2, dos[345]

Post by Dag Erik Lindbe » Tue, 17 Sep 1991 07:55:22



Quote:>    i'm running isc unix 2.2 on a generic 386. my disk is a micropolis
>300MB which i've formatted into a 100MB dos and a 200MB unix partition. my

If you RTFM this is pointed out in several different places.  ISC only
supports partitions <= 32MB, and only DOS versions <= 3.3

--
del AKA Erik Lindberg                             uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
                          Who is John Galt?

 
 
 

1. how do i mount an extended dos partition or a dos logical partition ?

i need to access/share data with an NT machine (not on a network)
i have 10G removable hard drives
i am trying to put a file system on it to allow access by both linux and
NT
linux won't mount an ntfs file system
the NT person put 4 primary (?) dos partitions on the disk
and if i run fdisk in linux it sees 4 FAT16 partitions
but it will only let me mount the first one

how do i mount the other 3 ?

is there some special way the disk needs to be formated by NT ?

thanks for any help,
dan

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