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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!hookup!swrinde!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-2.0-ALPHA] Peaceful Coexistence (not) Date: 28 Nov 1994 18:08:45 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3bd6bd$8ge@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3bd620$s5d@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3bd620$s5d@agate.berkeley.edu>, Anthony Monroe <tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >Hello once more... > >I will upgrade to 2.0-RELEASE, just as soon as I can solve this one problem. >2.0-ALPHA apparently doesn't want to peacefully coexist with a DOS Sure it does. I've been running it for over a week on my brothers 486/66 (4MB :( ) with absolutely no problems. >partition...or for that matter, any arrangement where it doesn't take up all >of my Maxtor IDE 540-megger (wd1). The common complaint when fsck runs >is something to the extent of "Can't read block 16." At which point I >repartition wd1, redo the disklabels, etc. etc. and get it working until the >next time that it decides to eat itself. Can you send me the results of disklabel -r wd1? I suspect that either you have over-lapping partitions or that your swap partition happens to be writing bogus data which is corrupting itself. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.