From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 15:29:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04988 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:29:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04982 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17023; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:25:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802242325.PAA17023@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Matthew Thyer cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Ollivier Robert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VFAT/FAT32 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:39:15 +1030." <34F3531B.BB3C830E@dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:25:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Matt; thanks for taking the time to play with this. > On a newly "made world" machine at CTM src-cur.3261 I was able to > mount_msdos my C: drive which is a Win95 B release installation > on a newly formatted C: partition without FAT32 (without support > for large drives as Micky soft calls it). OK. > It looked good through Xfm with long filenames in mixed case and > filenames with spaces in them. There appears to be an odd quirk where a ' character will truncate a name when it is being retrieved. > So then I though I'd load StarOffice and try to read a Word 6 > document. > > However when I clicked on the /dos directory (my C: drive mount > point) using the "File Open" dialog box, the machine locked solid. Ouch. Can you reproduce this reliably? Do you have a serial port you can put a serial console on and perhaps poke the system a bit there? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message