From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Aug 21 21:15:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from server.accelica.com (w068.z208176151.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [208.176.151.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABF7A37B424 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 13460 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 04:17:07 -0000 Received: from server.heavytech.com (HELO merc.heavytech.com) (209.31.32.65) by 10.99.5.2 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 04:17:07 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:16:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Popoff X-Sender: nick@localhost To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Strange MSDOS fs behavior Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This took me a while to figure out, so I figured I might as well report it in case it made sense to anyone else. I'm running FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE on a Sony Vaio Laptop. What I'm seeing is that a Win98 partition I've mounted is garbling MP3 files I'm storing there when they are played. The file is unchanged, but when I play the file it always cuts off with about 1 minute left to play. If I copy that file out of the Win98 partition to my Unix home directory, it plays fine. If I FTP it to my Windows box it plays fine. However, if I mount that Win98 partition with Samba on that Windows box, an play it on the Windows box, it screws up. The only conclusion I can draw is that the FreeBSD fs driver for the msdos partition is corrupting data as it reads it for applications... and in a predictable way for each file, since the song will cut off at the same place every time I play it. I'm mounting that msdos partition by a script in rc.d that says: mount_msdos -u nick -g nick -m 755 -l /dev/ad0s1 /usr/msdos And then I am accessing the files by a symbolic link like so: /home/nick/mp3 -> /usr/msdos/mp3 Hopefully the message will turn up in search results if someone else runs into this very wierd problem! Please e-mail me directly if I can provide any more info, as I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message