From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 2 12:24:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25508 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:24:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25502 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:24:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zwXaP-0007Kj-00; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 20:23:49 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id UAA01735; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 20:23:16 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07759; Sat, 2 Jan 99 20:23:13 GMT Message-Id: <368E804E.3B8FA4D9@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 20:23:42 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS partitions References: <368E1EFB.918A2BF7@uk.radan.com> <19990103014110.34980@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 03:19:57PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > On 02-Jan-99 Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > Yeah, but both he and I never found any documentation regarding > > writing to NTFS drives since MS is reluctant to hand out specs. > I'm sure I've seen a book (by Microsoft Press IIRC) that is all about the NT filesystem. I'll see if I can track it down. > Unfortunate, but hugely better than nothing. Besides, we want people to > get their data off NT, not put more on :-) > Good point :-) > > > If you think you need NTFS access I hope the above is of use to you. I > > > will try and put together a step-by-step FAQ/HowTo over the next few > > > days. > > > > The driver is however set up in a way that allows easy integration into the > > sourcetree... And from what I used of it, it was rock stable... > > So what's stopping it from being pulled in to save all this hassle? > It'd be another incentive for people who are considering moving from NT > to some kind of unix to try FreeBSD. > Another good point. I think there is a lot of active development going on though as the versions have moved form 0.6 to 0.9 in pretty rapid succession ( the only reason that it's taken me this long to get round to trying it is that all previous versions I d/l'd gunzip complained were corrupt). > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message