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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:15:58 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
To:        dan@westford.ccur.com (Dan Malek)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rel-2.1.0 and msdos file systems
Message-ID:  <199601180916.LAA00903@eac.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To:  <9601171919.aa04335@moe.westford.ccur.com> from "Dan Malek" at Jan 17, 96 07:19:23 pm

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On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Dan Malek wrote:

> . . . . . 
> The problem I am having is with Release-2.1.0 and the MSDOS file
> system partition.  Any modification to the 'C:' drive (/dev/wd0s1)
> corrupts my FreeBSD root partition (/dev/wd0s2a).  . . . . .
> 
> 	The drive came as one giant partition with Windows '95 installed.
> 
> 	I booted DOS 6.22 and ran FIPS to split up the drive:
> 
> 	    The first track is 'reserved'
> 	    DOS: cyl 0, track 1, sector 1 to cyl 442, track 63, sector 63
> 	    FreeBSD: cyl 444, track 0, sector 1 to cyl 1022, track 63, sector 63

The FreeBSD msdosfs appears to have a problem with drives that have been
split by FIPS. This is currently being investigated.

> The Release-2.1.0 MSDOS file system seems to work just fine with a floppy
> disk, so the problem must be with the hard disk mapping.
> 
> I am also running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on another system with an Adaptec SCSI
> controller and 1.something GByte disk.  The MSDOS file system works just
> fine there.

Was FIPS also used to split this drive?

-- 
Robert Nordier
rnordier@iafrica.com



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