On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 05:56:06PM +1000, Murray Armfield wrote:
...  
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>   a: 25434165       63      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-25232*)
>   c: 25434228        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -25232*)
>   d: 25434228        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -25232*)
>   e: 25434165       63      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-25232*)

and in the other message

0: sysid 7 (OS/2 HPFS or NTFS or QNX2 or Advanced UNIX)
    start 63, size 8289477 (4047 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder  515, head 254, sector 63
1: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
    start 8289540, size 2104515 (1027 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder  516, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder  646, head 254, sector 63

So, wd0a and wd0e start at the beginning of the NTFS partition, which means
that mount -t ntfs wd0a/e might work, but wd0a and wd0e are both bigger than
said partition => if ntfs could write at all, it could write onto the DOS
partition.. not good..

Solution: to generate a disklabel which matches your fdisk partition info...

Good luck,

Patrick