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From: Drew Hess <dhess@CS.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: MSDOSFS problems
To: Mike.Long@analog.com
Cc: current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
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Mike Long writes:
>
> >Date: Tue, 02 Aug 1994 15:28:39 -0400
> >From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@wrl.EPI.COM>
> >
> [Drew Hess wrote:]
> >>Has anyone else had MSDOSFS problems in the last few days? I'm running
> >>a July 31 -current/i386 system (binaries and kernel), and whenever I try to
> >>cp a file from a NetBSD partition to an MS-DOS filesystem the machine hangs
> >>and I have to do a hard reset.
> >
> >Just curious; have you verified that the MS-DOS filesystem isn't corrupt? I
> >used to have similar problems until I ran CHKDSK under DOS and fixed some
> >filesystem inconsistancies.
>
> I have had similar problems, and CHKDSK found nothing wrong with my
> disk before or after. I am also using an IDE disk (Western Digital
> WDAC2420); the MSDOS partition was fdisk'ed and formatted using MSDOS
> 6.00, and is 125 MB in size (2K clusters). When I rebooted into DOS,
> an 0-length entry for the file I had tried to write was in the
> directory; so it created the directory entry OK but choked when it
> tried to write the data. I didn't get the problem consistently; I was
> able to write some small files to the MSDOS partition before my system
> hung.
>
Yes, exactly the same thing happened to me. Trying a
cp -r dir /dos
copied some of the files (though in one case the files were corrupt) and then
created a 0-length file for the last file in the directory and hung.
Copying just a single file consistently hangs the system.
-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu