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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: msdosfs causes total meltdown Date: 18 Oct 1995 18:57:24 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 22 Message-ID: <463imk$pob@overload.lbl.gov> References: <45ktg5$er0@ionews.io.org> <3081C6DD.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <45vr8l$12d@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >Finite Systems Consulting wrote: >> It would be really nice to have access to the DOS partition from >> FreeBSD... any advice will be much appreciated. > >I agree that it would be really nice, but that's about the best I can >do.. :-( > >The problem requires someone with a knowledge of DOS filesystems to >go in there and make sure we're doing the right things. Unfortunately, >such people don't exactly grow on trees! :( I watched this discussion for a while and forgot which version has the problem. I remember that mount_msdos works fine under 2.0.5-RELEASE. I can mount both hard drive and floppy without problem. I can mv file between DOS filesystems and BSD filesystems. (-: I re-tried, and it still works. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |