mount_msdosfs anomaly

[Hendrik Hasenbein]

Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> Aloha
>> 
>> I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple
>> distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd
>> on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32
>> for data sharing between all distros.
>> 
>> When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the win98 slice with
>> "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /win98" without any trouble.
>> 
>> When I attempt to mount slice 10 with "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s10
>> /shared" I get the following error:
>> 
>> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s10: invalid argument.
>> 
>> Slice 10 was formatted in win98 and scan disk was run. I have a
>> text file and two jpeg photos in the slice.
>> 
> 
> 
> Only 4 primary slices are recognized.   FreeBSD will not talk to a
> slice 10 and I don't think anything MS will either in a standard
> manner.  That is why they came up with extended partitions.   What
> did you use to create the extra slices?
> 
> ////jerry

Isn't ad?s5 and up used for the extended partitions? Which devices show 
up in /dev ?

Hendrik