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SubjectRe: 2048 bytes/sector in pre2-2.2.2
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > 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.

Question: is it now possible to read an NTFS file system on a partitioned
Fujitsu 640 MB MO disk that was written under NTW4? If so, how do I do it?
I had never been able to find a way to do this in the past. Thanks.

Harvey

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