From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 12 15:56:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bd.mbn.or.jp (bd.mbn.or.jp [202.217.0.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DBA14DF1 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chi@bd.mbn.or.jp) Received: from chino.localhost (cse6-88.sapporo.mbn.or.jp [202.217.111.158]) by bd.mbn.or.jp (8.9.1/bd.mbn.or.jp-2.0) with ESMTP id HAA03120; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:56:41 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:56:41 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199910122256.HAA03120@bd.mbn.or.jp> Posted-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:18:09 JST To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd98-hackers@jp.freebsd.org Subject: non-512 msdosfs patch From: chi@bd.mbn.or.jp (Chiharu Shibata) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.21] 1997-12/23(Tue) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is Chiharu Shibata, who sent the PR(misc/12992) before. That PR's patch is to support non-512bytes/sector media for msdosfs. I have been checking the CVS repository, but the patch is not committed yet. I was hoping to be committed, before the patch is not available by another modification of msdosfs. The MO is very popular media in Japan, and 640MB/1.3GB MO are both 2048bytes/sector media. So, It is a FAQ that "How can I use DOS/Windows formatted 640MB MO?". In addition, NEC PC-98 uses non-512bytes/sector media generally. It is useless for PC-98 without the patch, not too much to say. I have reports that the patch works well, not only NEC PC-98, but also PC/AT's FreeBSD3.2-RELEASE. PS. I don't subscribe freebsd-current ML. About this theme, please send to me via freebsd98-hackers ML with Cc:. (See Cc: of this mail) -- Chiharu Shibata chi@bd.mbn.or.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message