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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:24:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting closer to use ATAPI-ZIP drives 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903041623260.892-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199903041701.KAA03727@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> I've had to, in the past, slightly tweak the mount code for msdosfs to
> get stuff to mount.  It would be interesting to see if this is a data
> corruption problem (in which case the diagnostic is good) or a
> slightly oddball dos disk.  mtools might be useful in tracking things
> down.

I'd say this is a deficiency with the msdosfs code. I've created some
"partitions" with bochs (installed Win95 OSR2.. disk image was like
500mb.. not fat32), and after I vnconfig'd it, I could not mount -t msdos
it because of the same error (bad bpb).  Win95 sure grok'd it.

- alex




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