Reading a dos formatted disk

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I seem to be having a problem reading a disk that was dos formatted on my
QNX RTP box. I am trying the following:

Dosfsys &
mount /dev/fd0 /dos/a

When I type:
ls /dos/a

I get the following error:
Corrupted file system detected (/dos/a)

I know the disk works because I can read the files that are on the disk from
my windows machine.

I know the floppy drive works becaue I can read QNX disks just fine using:
Fsys.floppy &
mount /dev/fd0 /fd
ls /fd

I can’t seem to figure out what I am doing wrong with the DOS mount. Any
help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

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Hmm…,
I’m probably simpleton, but I usual use

mount -t dos /dev/fd0 /fs/fd-dos

That’s all.

I know nothing about

Fsys.floppy &

Dosfsys &

You indicate the file system in -t of mount, default is QNXFS

Regards,
Eduard.

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“Mike Toreno” <no.spam@address.com> wrote in message
news:9j7qc1$60c$1@inn.qnx.com…

I seem to be having a problem reading a disk that was dos formatted on my
QNX RTP box. I am trying the following:

Dosfsys &

heu? Dosfsys doesn’t not exists under RTP

mount /dev/fd0 /dos/a

mount -tdos /dev/fd0 /dos/a
Will take care of everything, except starting the floppy driver but
normaly it’s started for you.

When I type:
ls /dos/a

I get the following error:
Corrupted file system detected (/dos/a)

I know the disk works because I can read the files that are on the disk
from
my windows machine.

I know the floppy drive works becaue I can read QNX disks just fine using:

Fsys.floppy &

Wow I think you got the wrong OS. Fsys.floppy and Dosfsys are QNX4
executable
Both don’t exist under QNX6

mount /dev/fd0 /fd
ls /fd

I can’t seem to figure out what I am doing wrong with the DOS mount. Any
help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Mike