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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!col.hp.com!sdd.hp.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: msdosfs causes total meltdown Date: 14 Oct 1995 20:39:59 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <45p3mf$c84@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45ktg5$er0@ionews.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Finite Systems Consulting <fsc@io.org> wrote: >msdosfs is pretty clearly the culprit in the panics: when I added a /dos >mount point for the DOS partition ... Unfortunately, msdosfs is known to be broken. Did you try mounting it read/only? This should prevent it from tampering with the BSD file systems. You can access your QIC-80 streamer through the ft(8) utility. For example: tar -cvf - . | ft "backup from XX/XX/XX" or ft | tar -xvf - I'm afraid you will have troubles to find an archive format usable to exchange data with DOS however. AFAIK, the usual DOS backup programs do all use some proprietary format. There's a tar available for DOS, but i'm not sure if it's possible to fetch the data from a QIC-80 tape in "raw" format, i.e. not interpreted by the DOS backup utility. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)