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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: MSDOS filesystems being corrupted?
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> Recently (past few months, unable to be more specific, sorry) I've noticed my
> msdos partitions being declared "damaged" by Nortun Utilities under win95
> after I've been writing to them under freebsd (specifically, disk doctor will
> find lost clusters and "repair" them by removing the file.) All I usually need
> to do is create a few (large? The last one which got reaped was about 40MB)
> files on the DOS partition - I don't notice any problems accessing them under
> bsd.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
> 
I have seen this behavior, but only on floppies, that's wierd about your
norton, Scandisk doesn't give me any problems on my msdos partition, but I
don't put large files there. I mostly just read from that disk.

Kenneth Culver


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