Re: 2048 bytes/sector in pre2-2.2.2

Alan Cox (alan@roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:27:47 +0000 (GMT)

> > 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.

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