From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 18:33:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA01720 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:33:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01696 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:33:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from orchard.east-arlington.ma.us (sommerfeld.ne.highway1.com [24.128.53.76]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA16238 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:03:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[UNIX: localhost]] ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by orchard.east-arlington.ma.us (8.8.5/1.34) with SMTP id BAA04463; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:01:09 GMT Message-Id: <199703250101.BAA04463@orchard.east-arlington.ma.us> To: Terry Lambert cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, darrenr@cyber.com.au Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:24:04 -0700 (MST) ." <199703242324.QAA23896@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:01:07 -0500 From: Bill Sommerfeld Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [like the message I'm replying to, this message is CC'ed to both hackers@freebsd.org and port-i386@netbsd.org] For what it's worth, the fsck_msdos in NetBSD (and the MSDOS 5.x chkdsk) did not detect one case of file system corruption -- it was described as two files referencing the same something-or-other -- which was detected and fixed by the Win95 install program when I installed win95 on my DOS partition [1]. Does this ring any bells? - Bill [1] in order to placate the cable-modem installers from Continental Cablevision, who don't believe that PC's can run anything other than Windows..