Subject: Re: Accessing an entire DOS FAT32 SCSI Drive
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/29/1997 21:55:15
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:

> From what I understand, all DOS partitions you access via the current
> msdos fs code need to be smaller than roughly 540MB.  This is because
> when you go over 540MB, DOS uses 32K clusters, and the maximum cluster
> size allowable by the NetBSD filesystem code is 16K.  It's probably
> sheer lock that you're not crashing accessing both DOS partitions.
> 
> This info may be old and this may be fixed in current.  Then again, it
> may not be.

This was fixed in current a few months ago. Of course that introduced other
problems.... :-)

cjs

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