[vox-tech] [OT] IRQ's under win2k

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:44:22 -0800


On Sun 14 Dec 03, 12:53 AM, wizards@codebuilders01.jhservers205.com <wizards@codebuilders01.jhservers205.com> said:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:13:06PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > btw, is there such a thing as non destructively changing NTFS to VFAT?
> > i hate not being able to write to my windows drive from within linux.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's not, but check out http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
> 
> They've got working r/w to NTFS by
> a) Use Linux ro NTFS driver to mount partition
> b) find ntfs.sys file on NTFS drive
> c) use Wine-type layer to load ntfs.sys driver to remout drive in r/w
> 
> I haven't tried it yet (I reinstalled Win2K on fat32 2 weeks ago) but
> I've heard it works great. I'm actually considering putting a small
> NTFS partition on my drive just to play with it.

that's actually pretty cool, although for some reason, a little scary.
:)  i'll definitely look into that.

seems like ntfs has been ro in the kernel for ages now.  i wonder what
the problem could be...

pete

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