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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@minnow.render.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question
Date: 19 Jul 1996 10:54:18 +0100
Organization: RenderMorphics Ltd.
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:

y> 
> [...]
> 
> Thus this should not have worked for DOS for you.
> 
> It's highly likely that there would be a sign extension problem
> at this boundry in the msdosfs code, since you can't normally
> test against "impossible" situations under DOS.
> 
> It sounds like you were using VFAT32?
> 
> In any case, yes, that's another way of getting the problem. 8-(.

I have a machine here on my desk with a 2G FAT filesystem.  It is
definately *not* VFAT32.  I don't feel like using a beta filesystem on
my work machine today ;-).  The machine is running Win95 golden and
works fine.  Probably horribly wasteful of disk space...

I didn't read the original post but was it something about the
filesystem appearing corrupt from FreeBSD?  If so, that is was I am
seeing for this filesystem.  I didn't particularly want to access it
from FreeBSD, so I ignored it.

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