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Date:      Sat, 26 Apr 2003 03:18:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/msdosfs msdosfs_vfsops.c
Message-ID:  <20030426031753.O566@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030424142124.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.20030424142124.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, John Baldwin wrote:

> Windows formatted iPod's have a fake DOS BPB at the start of their disk.
> If you tried to mount it as a msdos filesystem before this change, the
> kernel would panic.  Now you get EINVAL.  If you stick GEOM_APPLE in your
> kernel, then the apple label at the start of the disk is recognized, and
> you can mount /dev/da0s2 as a msdos filesystem.
>
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/

Ah ha!  An excuse to ask for an iPod on the donations page!

I'm going to have to think of a similar excuse for a GeForce FX. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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