If you mount the hard drive as read only, you should be able to avoid
corruption on a Linux partition IIRC.

Josh
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Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Blick [SMTP:bblick@SONIC.NET]
> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:16 AM
> > To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      Re: [EE]: Car MP3 player. (oh no, again!!!)
> >
> > DOS? Yuck! Don't you have a hard drive size limit and 8.3 names? I
> > have full code(PC side and PIC side) if you want to use Linux and a
> > serial port.
> >
> Nice thing about DOS is that you can happily power up and down with vritualy
> no chance of causing any HD corruption.  Linux is a bit of a fscking
> nuisance in that respect :o)  Dos will also boot in a couple of seconds
> which is handy if you just want to turn on and get some music out of the
> thing.
>
> Mike

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