Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:03:53 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk corruption problems in 2.0.5R (CDROM)? Message-ID: <m0stJZj-000r3xC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Sep 1995 09:11:39 -0700." <m0ssuPU-000r3xC@main.statsci.com>
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Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> wrote:
> Well, I'd been getting those messages from FreeBSD boot sequence from
> mountmsdosfs about not being a multiple of the clustersize, so I was thinking
> of using FIPS to drop the size back down to a multiple of 32K.
Except that...with a BIOS C/H/S of 524/64/63 and FIPS dealing with cylinder
boundaries, I probably can't get the partition to a multiple of 32K on this
disc (least common multiple of 32K and that 63 = 32K * 63 = 2064384 which
won't work so hot on a 1Gb disk). Or did I miss something in that reasoning
process?
So, it seems that I am back to this being a problem in the msdos file system
code. I completely reinstalled 2.0.5 from CD again (including newfs'ing all
the relevant partitions and not mounting any DOS discs). It seemed to work
fine for a while. Then I mounted my C: drive (wd0s1) read-only and did a
'find' command down it...
% mkdir /c
% mount -r -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /c
% find /c -xdev -print
The find command gave me various results when I ran it different times...
find: /c/msoffice/?????????.???: No such file or directory
complaining about garbage filenames. Shortly after that, I did
% ls /sbin
ls: /sbin: Bad file descriptor
and got messages like this:
......... syslogd: /var/run/tmp: not a directory
I threw a 3 finger salute at the keyboard and got this:
/: bad dir ino 2 offset 0: mangled entry
panic: bad dir
Syncing...1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
[at this point I hit the reset button, but I don't remember if the
syncing stopped or not]
Any clues on how to get a useable 'msdos' file system setup?
Thanx,
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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