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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: Is PCFS stable? Message-ID: <jmonroyCxp4v1.K9v@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <mldCxnGq8.G95@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 04:09:00 GMT Lines: 23 Matthew Deter (mld@netcom.com) wrote: : 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? : The PCFS in my box seems to be fairly reliable. I haven't looked at the code, so I have no tecnical comments beyond... it seems to work well. : I know that the PCFS system is considered somewhat "experimental". : How reliable is it? Is it PCFS that's messing things up, or something : else? Is it a Bad Idea to mount my DOS partition read/write? : Suffice to say MicroSoft will change the file system once the see the code and decide *bsd is a treat to MS-DOS. My advice is back up frequently... as will all computer systems. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________