This maybe true, but I have noticed that once I mount a DOS floppy in Debian after two or three times It is unreadable by Windows. It seems to me that Linux is Hell on floppies. Even my Debian only floppies seem to have a extremely short life. I thought my Floppy was dying then i changed it and still the same problems.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Pfeifer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 10:38 PM > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: Re: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive. > > "John C. Ellingboe" wrote: > > > > Back when I did use one of the Gates viruses I had problems with win9X > > writeing to areas of the disk that it shouldn't. Some of those disks > > are still unusable today because of that. I would make sure that > > there were NO M$ partations on my Linux disk at all because of that. > > I would keep all of the M$ stuff on its own disk so it could never > > access my Linux disks in any way. You have been warned... > > Well, let's not *too* get carried away with the anti-MS stuff. Nothing > any OS writes to any disk, anywhere, will make it permanently unusable. > If nothing else, clearing the MBR sector and starting from scratch will > work. > > Tom > > -- > Try Debian GNU/Linux - it's free, it's open source, and it rocks > http://www.debian.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
