Re: Amiga Filesystem mounting bother.
I couldn't try anything with FFS yet (anything but some floppies I
could not mount, see my question below), but I think there is a chance
that you should try mounting each single partition on a single mount
point, as you do with any partitioned disk, that is: NOT /dev/hdd but
/dev/hdd1, /dev/hdd2, /dev/hdd3, /dev/hdd4.
For instance, supposing you have a /mnt directory:
rmdir /AMIGA
mkdir /mnt/amiga1
mkdir /mnt/amiga2
mkdir /mnt/amiga3
mkdir /mnt/amiga4
mount -t affs /dev/hdd1 /mnt/amiga1
mount -t affs /dev/hdd2 /mnt/amiga2
mount -t affs /dev/hdd3 /mnt/amiga3
mount -t affs /dev/hdd4 /mnt/amiga4
Try also without the '-t affs' parameter. And let me know!
QUESTION: which filesystem is on Amiga FLOPPIES?
Now your question made me curious and I tried mounting some Amiga 600
floppies, say just the Workbench ones and not games, to be sure not to be
dealing with strange filesystems. (Actually, I have a communication
package for Amiga here on the PC, I got it from a BBS, and it would be
nice to give it to my brother's Amiga just via floppy.) I tried both the
following:
mount -t affs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
With any of the above commands I get (to whatever virtual console I switch
to) 16 times the line
floppy0: probe failed...
and then this one
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
then again 16+1 16+1 and so on, until I kill the mount process.
This is the result of 'cat /proc/filesystems' with the kernel I used to do
the test:
ext2
minix
msdos
nodev proc
iso9660
affs
hpfs
xenix
sysv
coherent
ufs
vfat
Actually, the affs filesystem support here is currently configured as
a module, but this works quite fine for hpfs and msdos (and a lot of other
things such as PPP). Just to be sure, after I send this message I
immediately try rebuilding the kernel with affs support 'Y' and not just
'M'odule. But the answer is probably that floppies do have another kind of
filesystem and you won't see any appendix to this message with "it works"
inside.
Nicola Bernardelli <nbern@mail.protos.it>
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote:
> Hi there,
> After some very successful tests with UAE I`ve decided to strip
> my A1200 drive out and shove it in my PC. I`ve recompiled my kernel with
> both affs and loop device support (not moduled, compiled straight in).
> But I`m still unable to mount this drive.
>
> The drive is a 420 Conner drive. It`s configured correctly in the BIOS
> as Secondary slave (/dev/hdd?). The drive is split into 4 partitions all
> formatted on the amiga using standard FastFileSystem. SYS: DH0: DH1: DH2:
> I`ve created a mountpoint called /AMIGA.
>
> Doing... mount /dev/hdd /AMIGA -t affs
>
> produces the following;
>
> # mount /dev/hdd /AMIGA -t affs
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
> or too many mounted file systems
> #
>
> Here`s the bootup log from /var/log/messages.
>
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: loop: registered device at major 7
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080A, 1039MB w/83kB Cache, LBA, CHS=528/64/63
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: hdb: WEARNES CDD-120, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: hdc: ST3660A, 520MB w/120kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1057/16/63
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: hdd: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A, 406MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=826/16/63
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: Partition check:
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: hda: hda1
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: hdc: hdc1 hdc2
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: hdd:Dev 16:40 Sun disklabel: bad magic 0000
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: Dev 5696: RDB in block 0 has bad checksum
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: unknown partition table
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Apr 17 20:21:21 scorch kernel: Adding Swap: 41324k swap-space
> Apr 17 20:21:
>
> Judging by this the kernel isn`t understanding the partition table for
> some reason. 2 of the partitions used to be AFS (another new miggie file
> system) but have now been formatted to FFS.
>
> Am I on the right track? The drive is fine in the amiga but linux just
> can`t seem to mount it. The drive I`m sure is on /dev/hdd as it spins down
> now and again then when tryingt to mount it it spins back up.
>
>
> Ozzy,
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>
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