Accessing a DOS drive

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I am trying to adopt a Windows 2000 partition on the same drive as QNX4.25
Using the Dosfsys c=/dev/hd0t1 constantly tells me that “unable to open
drive”. Am I missing something in the sysinit file? Any help would be
appreciated.
John

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Two thoughts:

First, did you mount -p /dev/hd0?

If so then is there a hd0t01 in the dev directory?

If that’s also true then what I would try is using Fatfsys instead of
Dosfsys. Dosfsys is old. Hell, after Dosfsys came Fsys.dos and that’s
obsolete too now. So get and use Fatfsys.

“John Kaye” <jekaye@total.net> wrote in message
news:alb0cl$bvm$1@inn.qnx.com…

I am trying to adopt a Windows 2000 partition on the same drive as QNX4.25
Using the Dosfsys c=/dev/hd0t1 constantly tells me that “unable to open
drive”. Am I missing something in the sysinit file? Any help would be
appreciated.
John

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Hi John,

QNX will only be able to recognize FAT partitions, NTFS will not be
readable.
Also for FAT32 partitions you should be using Fatfsys, Dosfsys only supports
FAT16.

Regards,

Joe

John Kaye <jekaye@total.net> wrote in message
news:alb0cl$bvm$1@inn.qnx.com…

I am trying to adopt a Windows 2000 partition on the same drive as QNX4.25
Using the Dosfsys c=/dev/hd0t1 constantly tells me that “unable to open
drive”. Am I missing something in the sysinit file? Any help would be
appreciated.
John

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What type your Windows 2000 partition is using? Type 1, which you are using,
is DOS 12-bit FAT.

Ruifeng


“John Kaye” <jekaye@total.net> wrote in message
news:alb0cl$bvm$1@inn.qnx.com…

I am trying to adopt a Windows 2000 partition on the same drive as QNX4.25
Using the Dosfsys c=/dev/hd0t1 constantly tells me that “unable to open
drive”. Am I missing something in the sysinit file? Any help would be
appreciated.
John