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From: fsc@io.org (Finite Systems Consulting)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: msdosfs causes total meltdown
Date: 13 Oct 1995 01:29:41 -0400
Organization: Finite Systems Consulting
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I've just installed 2.0.5, and it's running nicely... but without
msdosfs, and only after two system panics which both wiped out /usr
totally and forced me to reinstall.
msdosfs is pretty clearly the culprit in the panics: when I added a /dos
mount point for the DOS partition with which FreeBSD is sharing the disk
(in disklabel during the install -- I haven't played with adding it any
other way), the system ran fine *until* I read or wrote anything in /dos
-- shortly after which point it trashed /usr totally and then panicked.
It did give fair warning, though: when booting with the mount in place,
mount_msdosfs complains about a misaligned partition.
(System profile: Pentium 100 w/ 40MB, running a 1GB Conner disk through
an Adaptec 2940. Other periphs, almost certainly irrelevant to this
problem, are a Paradise Viper Pro VLB (4MB VRAM), a SCSI CDROM, and an
HP Travant FD-type tape drive.)
It would be really nice to have access to the DOS partition from
FreeBSD... any advice will be much appreciated.
(If I can't get access to the DOS disk, can somebody give em a quick
rundown on using my QIC80 tape from FreeBSD so I can move some stuff
over that way?)
Thanks,
Richard
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