On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:24:29AM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> Well, I'm having two problems, both sort of involving DOS filesystems.
> 
> Problem #1:  I can't mount a DOS partition.  I have an fdisk table telling
> me start and end blocks.  I have built a disklabel where wd0d has the same
> set of blocks.  'mount_msdos' fails, complaining of an invalid argument.
> 
> The unrelated one:  I have one of those PCMCIA<->Compact Flash adapters,
> which is really (I am told) just a lame EIDE controller.

No, no, it's not.  It's just wires.  The *CompactFlash card itself* has
both IDE controller and disk emulation built onto it.

You can get another adapter for like $10 if you're worried that it's
the cause of the problem -- SanDisk used to give them away free with
every card, actually, though they eventually stopped.

> If I put it in, my machine locks up, after complaining about an expected
> thing never occurring.  It doesn't probe as anything.  It works fine in a
> mac.

You might try booting with the card inserted -- I haven't actually
ever tried hot-swapping wdc.