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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!psinntp!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu!localhost!gene From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Is PCFS stable? Date: 15 Oct 94 08:04:15 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 9 Message-ID: <GENE.94Oct15080415@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <mldCxnGq8.G95@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.cs.sunysb.edu. In-reply-to: mld@netcom.com's message of Fri, 14 Oct 1994 06:30:07 GMT >Are people out there using the PCFS drivers for FreeBSD 1151 to read >and write their DOS partitions? Are you having slight trouble with >corrupted disks when writing info to the DOS partition? This is a known problem. Reading works fine, but doing certain kinds of write operations can cause corruption. The moral is to avoid writing PCFS partitions, and to use caution if it is necessary to do so. - Gene Stark