Subject: Re: Please, I still need help w/ MS-DOS partition
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ralph Seichter <zodiac@darkness.gun.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/31/1996 01:13:30
On 29.07.96, drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de (Matthias Drochner) wrote

> > After editing the disk label, I can mount it, and I can use 'ls' to get a
> > directory listing. But as soon as I access a file (or a directory), a
> > kernel panic occurs.
>
> From my experience, there is a problem with MSDOSFS if the cluster size
> is too large (ie big DOS partition). I don't remember exactly, but the
> panic was: panic("allocbuf: buffer larger than MAXBSIZE requested");
> (allocbuf() in vfs_bio.h)

That's the message I get. The partition I want to access (my Windows '95
C:\ partition) has a size of 1.2 GB.
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     \X/ Ralph
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