[5733] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: F2513A + AIC7880
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tobias Richter)
Thu Jan 28 16:31:40 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:58:21 +0100
From: Tobias Richter <tsr@cave.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199901270313.LAA01502@possum.os2.ami.com.au>; from John Summerfield on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:05:52PM +0800
You (summer@OS2.ami.com.au) wrote:
> cfdisk correctly reads the partition table and identifies one partition,
> formattted hpfs.
>
> I tried varius ways of mounting to no avail. I suspect the problem here is
> IBM's trickery. For these drives there's a filter driver that reads 2K
> sectors and passes them out in 512 byte chunks. All the other software
> views the drive as being formatted with 512 byte sectors. I imagine this
> has implications for device addressing and could well stuff up the Linux
> HPFS driver.
So I would syspect that Linux' hpfs driver isn't doing these quirks.
> This information reinforces my view that Linux' driver needs to get the
> device capacity information whenever there's a media change.
I have no idea why you believe this based on the above facts.
Try making and mounting an ext2 filesystem on that MO drive.
t.
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