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Xref: sserve comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:482 comp.os.386bsd.questions:12948 Newsgroups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!cf-cm!isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Subject: Re: Wine damages DOS partions (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) Message-ID: <1994Sep5.112349.26552@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Nntp-Posting-Host: isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <UWP.94Sep2140320@titanic.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 11:23:47 +0000 Lines: 19 In article <UWP.94Sep2140320@titanic.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Udo Wolter <uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >Hi ! > >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). 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 ? FreeBSD. It's a known problem with the PCFS that it can corrupt the DOS partition when writing. It will hopefully be fixed for 2.0 but I'm not promising anything because we haven't got to looking at PCFS yet. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK