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From: nordin@qucis.queensu.CA (Brent Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: accessing large DOS partition from VP/ix
Keywords: VP/ix, DOS partition
Message-ID: <1098@qusunb.queensu.CA>
Date: 20 Feb 91 03:31:44 GMT
Distribution: ont
Organization: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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I want to use my DOS disk partition from within VP/ix.  I can mount the
partition, get directory listings and copy from the partition, but an
attempt to write to the partition gives me some variation on the "Hard
disk full" message I get from MS Word.  I have adjusted the kernel
NDOSINODES parameter as per the instructions in the monthly FAQ postings,
but that didn't help.  The DOS partition is a full 32MB and when mounted
under the UNIX filesystem df shows:

/dos_c (/dev/dsk/0p1): 8932 blocks 65535 i-nodes
			total: 65457 blocks 4294967295 i-nodes

The only numbers in the df listing that make sense to me are the block counts.
I'd appreciate any thoughts on the matter.  For what it is worth, I am
running ISC386/ix 2.0.2, VP/ix 1.1.1.

Brent Nordin
nordin@qucis.queensu.ca