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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!whim!lclee From: lclee@primenet.com (Larry Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please explain the diff between wd0a and wd0s2a Date: 24 Aug 1996 06:30:04 -0700 Organization: Primenet Lines: 46 Message-ID: <lclee.551.0041D0AF@primenet.com> References: <lclee.537.021BF8A6@primenet.com> <3219267D.5F1A@www.play-hookey.com> <4vhstg$dt@anorak.coverform.lan> <321E9452.474A@www.play-hookey.com> X-Posted-By: @204.212.52.216 (lclee) X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article <321E9452.474A@www.play-hookey.com> Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: >From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> >Subject: Re: Please explain the diff between wd0a and wd0s2a >Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:34:10 -0700 >Brian Somers wrote: >So, I must apologize for misleading the original poster, Larry Lee, of >this question (now lost from the thread off of my news server). However, >my primary point from my first reply remains valid: Win95 is intolerant >of just about everything else, and you can't safely read/write from a >mounted ms-dos partition if the cluster size is too big for the logical >drive size, which commonly occurs when you use FIPS. There may also be >another problem with Win95 because of the extra room they leave for the >long filenames. I wonder if FreeBSD 2.2 will have a 'mount_win95' >command equivalent to 'mount_msdos' but taking these vagaries into >account?? >-- >Ken I don't want to belabor this point, but ... I did use FIPS to partition a 2GB Win95 partition down to a about 600MB. and I still use that partition to this day. I have run scandisk on it many times and scan disk has never reported an error. My usage of the Win95 is not extensive, mainly word and ccmail, but I do no appear to have any file damage in the Win95 partition. For a while I attempted to receive all my email in unix, which included some (big) MIME encoded word documents. So I mounted the Win95 partition from FreeBSD and copied the word document to the Win95 partition. The file did not show up in the Windows partition either using FreeBSD's ls command or with the Windows command once I got there. I believe that this is what caused the problem, I can't prove it and I'm not about to repeat it to try and prove it. However shortly after that I went back to FreeBSD and had a little trouble booting. I found that a range of about 50 consecutive inode had been trashed trashed, which included the inode for my /dev/rwd0s2f and /dev/wd0s2f. After restoring them I found considerably more damage in the /usr partition. I decided to reinstall FreeBSD from scratch. I believe the problem is in the FreeBSD code probably in mount_msdos, not Win95 code. Larry