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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 22:51:48 -0700
Organization: Me
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David McNab wrote:
] |It means the cluster size is larger than what DOS would have
] |put there for a partition of that size.
]
] How would this happen? I think I followed the
] canonical install-a-new-SCSI-drive procedure when
] I installed the drive, although it's the first one
] I've put in. I chopped the disk up into two fdisk
] partitions (leaving about 1GB at the end for future
] allocation), then built the DOS filesystem in the
] first one using format /s. The second partition
] is a BSD partition.
Did you use FIPS?
Did you use PARTED?
Did you use Partition Magic?
Are you using an LBA geometry translator?
Are you using a Prmis EIDE controller?
There are lots of ways it could happen.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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