problems mounting firewire HDD

Tadimeti Keshav keshav_tadimeti at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Apr 7 17:01:40 PDT 2004


I am running x86, not sparc.
Any solns?
Thx in advance...
 --- Mathew Kanner <mat at cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote: >
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> 
> On Apr 07, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
> > Le Wednesday 07 April 2004 20:02, Tadimeti Keshav
> a
> > > ?crit :
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I am doing the following to mount a 10GB
> Quantum
> > > > Fireball FAT32 HDD via firewire as root.
> > > > FreeBSD 5.2.1, lucent F322/323 (firewire
> card).
> > > This
> > > > setup works under Windows 2000.
> > > >
> > > > #camcontrol devlist -v
> > > > #camcontrol start da0
> > > > #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /bck
> > > > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0: operation not
> permitted.
> > > 
> > > you can try : 
> > > mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /bck
> > > (mount the 1st partition)
> > > 
> > Thanks. But when I do: ls /dev/da*, I can only see
> > /dev/da0, not /dev/da0s1.
> > Do I need to give some command to have that
> appear?
> > is it camcontrol start da0?
> 
> This is what PHK wrote in an older message.  Maybe
> you can apply the
> same technique:
> 
> >On sparc64 (or with geom_sunlabel in your kernel)
> try inserting a 
> >solaris install CD and then:
> >        true > /dev/cd0 # make GEOM taste media
> >        ls -l /dev/cd*
> >You should now be able to see the boot partitions.
> 
> 	--Mat
> 
> -- 
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