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Can't mount hdd with Venix 80286 file system

 
Efim Kushnir
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Can't mount hdd with Venix 80286 file system

Dear Sirs,

I have old HDD with installed Venix 80286 file system.

When I try mount it HDD to different Linux it not properly.

The host OS determine HDD normally but I can't mount it.

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#fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 522 4192933+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 7050 9728 21519067+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 523 3133 20972857+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4 3134 7049 31455270 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5 7050 7176 1020096 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 7177 9728 20498908+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hdb: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
1 heads, 63 sectors/track, 620160 cylinders Units = cylinders of 63 * 512 = 32256 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 2 615984 19403464+ 40 Venix 80286
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

# mount -t autofs /dev/hdb1 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

# dmesg | tail
VFS: unable to find oldfs superblock on device hdb1
VFS: unable to find oldfs superblock on device hdb1
FAT: invalid media value (0xa5)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb1.
FAT: invalid media value (0xa5)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb1.
autofs: called with bogus options
FAT: invalid media value (0xa5)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb1.
autofs: called with bogus options
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Could somebody help me resolve it problem ?

BR,
Efim Kushnir.
Look for the answers, do not stop !
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Ken Grabowski
Respected Contributor

Re: Can't mount hdd with Venix 80286 file system

Venix 80286! I did not think any of that was around any more. How are you trying to mount the disk? If you are trying to use a disk created by a different OS I would not expect it to work.

I would make a backup of the disk on Venix usings a utilitiy avaiable on both platforms. I would check the specks on tar or cpio. Then resort the backup to the new system.

Hope that was some help.
Efim Kushnir
Frequent Advisor

Re: Can't mount hdd with Venix 80286 file system

Dear Ken.

I'm not understand that you say.
I'm try mount HDD with unix file system on different unix file system.
I do it by standard procedures of mount for different file system (it is clear from parts of log-files from my previouse message).
By unintelligible reason it procedure not complete successfully.

If somebody have solution how do it please inform me.

BR,
Efim Kushnir.
Look for the answers, do not stop !
Vitaly Karasik_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Can't mount hdd with Venix 80286 file system

Efim,
There is no "unix filesystem". Even in linux world you can see that one linux cannot read filesystem from another linux - for example, RH linux cannot work with reiserfs, which is default fs in SUSE (AFAIK).
Linux kernel supports some non-linux filesystems - like [v]fat, ntfs (more or less), some fs from Unixware and others.
Read this doc for more
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html.
Alan_152
Honored Contributor

Re: Can't mount hdd with Venix 80286 file system

From what I've been able to discover, current versions of mount and fstab don't have definitions for your file system. If you were to use fdisk, then it would be a type 40 filesystem.

From what I've read here -- http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/28453.html -- you might try mounting as a Xenix fs.