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From: mcnab@bayarea.net (David McNab)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question
Date: 5 Jul 1996 22:25:41 GMT
Organization: Bay Area Internet Solutions (408)447-8690
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
|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?
No.
|Did you use PARTED?
No.
|Did you use Partition Magic?
No.
|Are you using an LBA geometry translator?
Um, not to my knowledge. I don't know what
an LBA geometry translator is. Does it have something
to do with hyperspace? 8^)
|Are you using a Prmis EIDE controller?
No.
|There are lots of ways it could happen.
I've seen several responses to my email and
I haven't done any of the things that are supposed
to cause a problem. However, from checking every
piece of information I have been able to find, and
combining it with my empirical data, I have a theory.
I believe the problem was simply that I created
a DOS partition (using fdisk) that was bigger than
1GB. I don't know enough about MS-DOS filesystem
architecture to understand why this might be a problem,
but it seems like it is. I deleted the old partition
and created a new one just under 1GB, and everything's
fine.
Can anyone corroborate or repudiate my little
theory?
-- Dave McNab