mount_msdosfs anomaly

[hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com]

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> On Saturday 15 May 2004 08:59, hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> > Aloha Again
> >
> > Okay, I had some time and since I had just installed Slackware, I 
> didn't> mind blowing it away.
> >
> > Using cfdisk from the Slackware CD, I re-partitioned  slices 3 
> and up. I
> > now have a fat32 3Gig slice in primary partition/slice ad0s3. I 
> then have
> > four 12 Gig slices (5 - 8) set up as linux partitions. Finally 
> slice 9
> > (ad0s9/hda9) is linux swap.
> >
> 
> Do you still have Fat32 in slice 1?
> 
> It is my impression that MS will not allow more than 1 MS primary 
> slice. It
> will force 2nd and subsequent MS file systems into extended 
> partitions. Of 
> course if you created "and formatted" the slice outside of MS then 
> the 
> comment is irrelevant.
> 
> Posting the output of fdisk (on FreeBSD) might help.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
Aloha Malcolm

Thanks for responding. Here is the output of fdisk when ran from FBSD:
frankie# fdisk
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 11 (0x0b),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT)
    start 63, size 10249407 (5004 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 637/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 10249470, size 40949685 (19994 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 638/ head 0/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 12 (0x0c),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA))
    start 51199155, size 5863725 (2863 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63;
        end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 5 (0x05),(Extended DOS)
    start 57062880, size 99233505 (48453 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63;
        end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
frankie#
As you can see, I still have 98SE on partition 1 and partition 3 shows as fat32. Slackware was re-installed and is working on P-8 with linux-swap 0n P-9.

Is this weird that I cannot mount ad0s3?

Robert