Subject: Re: MSDOS Filesystems
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: Andrew Wheadon <andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/10/1995 08:23:59
> > Has anyone else noticed that if you mount a hard disk that has the FAT
> > filesystem on it, any writes you do the FAT filesystem will be corrupt.
> > The floppy code works just fine.  I don't understand what the difference
> > could be. 
> 
> I've seen this happen only once (only lost a 40MB partition :-( ).  I have,

It could be happening to partitions greater than 32MB (DOS > 3.3)
Cheerio

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