Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:59:24 -0500 (EST) | From | Harvey Fishman <> | Subject | Re: 2048 bytes/sector in pre2-2.2.2 |
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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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