From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 20:04:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06213 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06205 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA16240; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:03:51 +1000 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:03:51 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199809090303.NAA16240@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk Subject: Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem. Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> So to confirm my understanding, therefore you would confidently >> expect that using the latest version of the CAM-modified CURRENT, my >> machine will happily recognize, mount and read MSDOS filesystems on >> 640MB magneto-optical disk with a FUJITSU 2513A (minus of course all >> the mistakes that I'm might make in configuring this set-up). >> Somehow I wasn't managing this before, but I'll try again if this is >> meant to work. > >Such is my understanding. Somebody in the CAM team will have to >confirm it. CAM should have no affect on this, since the driver already supports 2048-byte sectors. msdosfs doesn't support them. It begins by attempting to read a 512-byte boot sector... Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message