Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 22:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: msdos floppy problem Message-ID: <m0sLl6j-000K0pC@pelican.com>
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System: Current from about 2-3 weeks ago; I don't think anything has changed in msdosfs... With a miscellaneous dos floppy (1.44mb 3.5") that I needed to get data from, "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /a" then "ls -l /a" gave a half-screen of garbage followed by a decent directory (there were only 2 files in the disks root; one a .exe and the other a directory, which contained 2 regular files). At least this garbage didn't scramble cons25 :-) mdir/mcopy saw it just fine with no bogus entries. (the reason I used mount in the first place was that I didn't yet have mtools; I ended up downloading it in midstream, in disgust.) Don't know what the problem is unless the directory read isn't getting truncated at the first 0 leading byte (or is that still a valid dos optimization?) -- Pete
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