[Gibble]

I *may* be seeing part of the problem...if I run an fdisk on the drive ad1 I get the following:

[root@goldmember:/mnt/olddrive/usr] # fdisk ad1
******* Working on device /dev/ad1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=5005 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=5005 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
    start 63, size 273042 (133 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 16/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA)
    start 787185, size 79618140 (38876 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 49/ head 0/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 131,(Linux filesystem)
    start 273168, size 514017 (250 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 17/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 48/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

Compared to my fstab...it makes sense.

Partition 1 is linux Swap...my fstab hda1 is swap.
Partition 2 is Extended DOS, LBA...it's not in my fstab.
Partition 3 is Linux filesystem...my fstab hda3 is / and I can mount this.
Partition 4 is UNUSED...it's not in my fstab.

So where are the rest of the partitions, 5 through 9, which would contain the rest of my data?

[Gibble]

Hmm...according to dmesg, the magic number is wrong...

[root@goldmember:/mnt/olddrive/usr] # dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #1: Sun Jan 30 18:01:28 CST 2005
...
...
...
ad0: 152627MB <WDC WD1600JB-00GVA0> [310101/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
ad1: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66
acd0: CDROM <FX4824T> at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
ext2fs: #ad/0x2000a: wrong magic number 0 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x3000a: wrong magic number 0x1e64 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x3000a: wrong magic number 0x1e64 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: ad1: wrong magic number 0 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x2000a: wrong magic number 0 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x2000a: wrong magic number 0 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: ad1: wrong magic number 0 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x20002: wrong magic number 0x8b6 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x3000a: wrong magic number 0x1e64 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x2000a: wrong magic number 0 (expected 0xef53)
ext2fs: #ad/0x3000a: wrong magic number 0x1e64 (expected 0xef53)

[Gibble]

EUREKA!!!

The extended partitions were
/dev/ad1s5-9
But I had to use MAKEDEV ad1s5-9 to make them available. Then I could easily mount them

Finally. Thanks for the help guys.