Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:14:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS filesystems being corrupted? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990111075950.280F-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org> In-Reply-To: <19990112003754.45869@welearn.com.au>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Sue Blake wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:00:19PM +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > I forgot to reply to this when I investigated further; I copied another large
> > file onto my msdos partition, and after rebooting into win95 Norton Utilities
> > complained about having found a damaged partition. Cancelling the dialog box
> > and running M$ ScanDisk revealed no errors - therefore something is being done
> > by the MSDOS filesystem code which ScanDisk is happy with, but NU is not.
> >
> > Should I open a PR on this?
To whom ;-)
> [Warning: newbie guesswork follows]
>
> considered tracking it down with a disk editor but then the problems
> with FreeBSD writing to FAT disappeared when I stopped running Nortons
> and NT :-)
I really think this is the best solution :)
> I'm not sure where to place the blame for the old or the new behaviour,
> but it sounds possible that some long-standing Nortons/Windows quibble
> could be having an unknown effect which would hold some of the answers.
> FreeBSD could have been trolling rather than making the final blow.
I have had my doubts about NU since the first time that I used the
software, that's only a personal opinion though. From my point of view
it would seem that NU has a flaw.
Regards,
Kevin G. Eliuk
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