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From: SQ79%liverpool.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Tos problems writing to harddisk
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Date: 4 Sep 89 09:26:42 GMT
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   Tos has worked fine and been a VVVVEEEERRRRRYYYY useful utility for
reading/writing to floppy... however, it doesn't seem to work to harddisk.
I tossed (hmmm) a tar file to one of my TOS partitions from minix and tried to
untar it with a TOS tar utility... it didn't work. So, I immediately suspected
the minix tos utility to be the culprit. I then tossed (that's why it's called
tos??) a 5800 byte text file from minix to a TOS partition. From the desktop
I could see that the file had been transferred with the correct length, however
after an inspection with a sector editor I found that only the first 1K of text
was present in the file and that the remaining ~5K was just junk. I checked
the FAT tables to see it tos was corrupting them, but they were okay...
6 clusters allocated, all correctly linking, with an end marker.
SO,... from all of this it must be that tos is preforming correctly, but losing
it's pointer (or whatever) to the data that it is writing to the TOS partition
after the first cluster is transferred.
Right... that's the theory... has anyone else experienced this problem and if
so how did they fix it????

Mark Powell

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