Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2048 bytes/sector in pre2-2.2.2 | Date | Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:27:47 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > I suppose it's some kind of a bug fix that pre2-2.2.2 can't mount 2048 > >bytes/sector medias created with earlier kernels? (I'm using a 640MB MO disc > >with one ext2 partition since 2.1.105.) > > Alan has been working with Fujitsu for both the SCSI and IDE MO drives. He > has both working (he made some mods for the odd byte/sector stuff).
The only thing that will bite people is that we now do partition tables for MO to spec. Old fdisk and kernel did not. The latest util-linux has fdisk -b 2048 options for handling this, and you basically want to divide all the offset/counts by four for a Linux old style (ie wrong according to win/dos) partition label on such media.
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