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Xref: sserve comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:479 comp.os.386bsd.questions:12917 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!rodin!wjin From: wjin@rodin.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Wine damages DOS partions (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) Date: 4 Sep 1994 17:04:38 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 31 Message-ID: <34cun6$mir@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <UWP.94Sep2140320@titanic.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodin.cs.uh.edu In article <UWP.94Sep2140320@titanic.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Udo Wolter <uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > ... >Everytime when I switch to DOS after I started Wine, my DOS partition is >damaged. Exactly those files which will be written by the programs I used >with wine are damaged (e.g. when I'm using minesweeper the file winmine.ini >is damaged). The worst thing is that win.ini get damaged everytime. The Norton >disk doctor can recover all of them but it's very enerving for me...:-( I had similar incidents (twice), but I didn't realize that it was because of wine in FreeBSD. After I tried wine, when I started win in DOS, it just hangs... >I'm running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and have the normal PCFS installed and the DOS >partitions are mounted under Unix. So what can I do ? Make the DOS-partitions >read-only ? By the way, I get similar damaging of the DOS-FS, when I'm >copying files from UNIX to DOS (not everytime but sometimes). This happens to me also... quite scary. >I got no >problems at all when I'm moving files from UNIX to DOS ! Where is the bug ? >In FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 ? Or in PCFS ? Or in Wine ? Set the DOS partition to read-only. I think that this is the safest choice at this moment. If you want to transfer from bsd to dos, use mtools. Unfortunately, mtools also damages floppies sometimes. I don't know why. But at least I can avoid DOS HD corruptions. -- Woody Jin