Re: How do you mount a Win98 drive under OpenBSD

["STeve Andre'" <andres@msu.edu>]

I think I might know why you are having this problem, Cory.

I suspect that the mount code looks for and only identifies certain disk
ID's as acceptable FAT32 systems, and don't know about the others.

The Ranish partition manager gives several different possible disk ID's
for Windows.  Once now, I have created a FAT32 partition with Ranish
and was uncertain of the disk ID to use and picked 0xb.  Windows liked
that well enough, but I could not mount the partition in OpenBSD.  I
haven't investigated it any more, but I now wonder what the mount
command wants to see for it to recognize a Windows disk.

--STeve Andre'

At 07:20 PM 10/31/00 -0500, Cory C. Albrecht wrote:
>On 31 Oct 2000, at 22:09, Miod Vallat wrote:
>
> > > probably FAT32, which is not supported under OpenBSD? (Unless 2.8,
>
> > Where did you invent this ? The fat32 code is msdosfs was imported early
> > 1998. That's more than two years old. Search for FAT32 in
> > http://www.openbsd.org/plus23.html
>
>FAT32 drives for me always crap out with an "unrecognisable" error,
>whereas I can get the same drive to mount under FreeBSD and
>Linux/Redhat (6.0). Besides, I could have sworn I read the that the
>OpenBSD stuff would only do the FAT12/FAT16, not FAT32. If not, my bad,
>I applogize.
>
>--
>Cory C. Albrecht
>http://www.sentex.ca/~cory/