> > based on your experience and mine, I'm going to guess it does. I think I've
> > always made 'a' the MSDOS partition. that way wince will see the superblock
> > from that, and think that it's good to go. 
> > it still sees it as the full size of the card, tho; but I've never done a
> > 'newfs'  on the MSDOS section. as such, it *will* try to write over the FFS
> > partition if you put too much stuff on the FAT (MSDOS) partition, but
> > generally this seems to have been more harmful to the FAT partition than the
> > FFS partition. (I've gotten corrupted data a few times).
> 
> This doesn't seem quite right.

you're probably right. I should have put a disclaimer on it that 'this isn't
necessarily the Right Way, just the way that I recollect doing it'. :)

Carl Soderstrom.
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