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From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with MSDOS Partitions
Date: 19 Apr 1996 23:32:44 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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To: rnestor@metronet.com,rnestor@ti.com
Honorable Bob Nestor
wrote on 19 Apr (in article <4l8tjc$c16@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>):
[About LARGE disks with MS-DOS partitions]
1st thing -- go and check the BIOS's setting for hard-drive access...
It has a few options such as `DOS' and 'Other' (yours may say `Unix',
but I doubt it). Set it to `Other'... I had this problem with NEC Ready
machine. I was getting FS-corruption on _both_ partitions every so often,
BTW :-(
May be FreeBSD install should check for this option in those BIOSes,
where it exists (if possible)?..
-mi
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"Windows for dummies"