On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Mike Long wrote:

> >Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 03:10:02 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Jose Alburquerque <csjaa@css3s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu>
> >
> >I guess you're right about the FAT32 problem.  I backed up my system and
> >reformatted my drive to use the FAT16 file system.
> 
> >	panic: allocbuff: buffer larger than MAXBSIZE requested
> 
> msdosfs doesn't work well on FAT filesystems with cluster sizes larger
> than MAXBSIZE.  Try breaking up your MSDOS partition into multiple
> partitions such that the cluster size of each is <= MAXBSIZE.  You
> should be able to find the definition of MAXBSIZE in (IIRC)
> <machine/param.h>.
> -- 
> 

Mike,

I did exactly what you said.  I split my DOS partition into two partitions
each of 800MB (C: and D: under Win95/DOS) both FAT16 format.  What's funny
is that I can access the d: partition fine (with long filenames and all),
but I keep getting the same panic upon trying to access the c:  partition
(where win95 resides) at all.  I'm wondering if it has to do at all with 
the fact that Win95 is on the disk.  Thanks for a lot for your suggestion 
though as now I'm at least able to access one partition!

-Jose
Humble NetBSD user


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