Alain Knaff wrote:
Mark Hounschell wrote:
[...]
All kernels below 2.6.28 work on these boxes. All kernels 2.6.28 and higher do
NOT.
2.6.28 was when support for sector "bases" other than 0 or 1 were
introduced. So, rather than have sectors numbered from 1 to 18, you can
now have sectors numbered from 129 to 146 (as is used by some of the
more exotic CP/M formats). This info is stored in some previously unused
bits of the "stretch" parameter.
Could it be that on some distributions, "something" is setting this to
some spurious value (which got ignored before 2.6.28, but from 2.6.28
got misinterpreted as a non-zero sector base).
Could you try to:
The first thing I have to report is that I started by checking fdformat
on /dev/fd0 in the usual way to confirm that the bug was still present.
This is on debian testing updated daily so many packages are updated
freqently. To my surprise, fdformat worked without problems on one i386
machine, but failed in the usual way on another.
My next message will report the results of Alain's test on the failing
machine.
ael
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