Subject: Re: getting to msdos partitions on drive
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Guenther Grau <s_grau@ira.uka.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/1996 15:35:14
Hi Darius,

> I have found that when I mount my 1G MSDOS/Win95 partition, I can look
> in the root directory, but nothing else, otherwise I get a kernel
> panic 'allocbuf. buffer larger than MAXBSIZE requested', which is
> kinda annoying. I think the ATAPI interface code may be doing this,
> but I'll have to test it. Mounting DOS partitions works OK for the
> 400meg partition on my 515meg drive tho :-/

this is a well know problem. you just have to bumb a parameter in the
kernel config. Dunno which it was though :-), but I am sure others
will (Wolfgang? <- Thanx for the PowerPC port while i am here:-).

  Guenther