problems mounting firewire HDD

[Mathew Kanner]

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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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