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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