From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 8 17:43:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA26940 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:43:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from synthcom.com (beacon.synthcom.com [198.145.98.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26931 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from synthcom.com (synthcom.com [198.145.98.1]) by synthcom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA00816; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:40:46 -0800 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:40:45 -0800 (PST) From: Neil Bradley To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes In-Reply-To: <26477.821150951@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > This results in crap being written out to the "phantom" locations as if > > it were a bigger disk. > Yep! This is the biggest #1 problem we need to fix. I can imagine other problems cropping up as well. I can say that I definitely would like to help. My background and experiences are with the 386 CPU, C, DOS, and firmware development for various motherboards. I have enough FreeBSD experience to get everything I need up and running (including recompiling and configuring kernels) but I have very little raw Unix programming experience. If someone can guide me through the workings of the DOSFS interfaces to Unix, I most likely can figure out the rest of the operations. Is there someone out there willing to help me if I get stuck, or can slap my hand when I do something wrong? I really do want to learn this stuff and help. What I'd basically need is: * A list of the known problems * Where it's located in the build tree * Who can mentor me in the Unix environment. ;-) Thanks! -->Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synthcom System's homepage: http://www.synthcom.com/ Europa Upgrade, Synth patches (D-50, Xpander/Matrix 12), used gear pricelist