On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:08:05PM +0100, Mike Bristow wrote: +> Hi, +> +> I am trying to access some ancient 5 1/4" floppies, with 256 byte +> sectors. Leaving aside the interesting hardware problems, the +> filesystem on these disks is (surprisingly enough) not supported on +> -CURRENT. While attempting to write one, I ran: +> +> # mdconfig -a -t malloc -S 256 -s 20 +> +> Thinking that this would give me some fake media to play with. Instead, +> it panics the box. +> +> This happens at line 809 of md.c version 1.222 which says: +> +> sc->nsect /= (sc->secsize / DEV_BSIZE); +> +> (where sc->secsize has been initialised to 256, as per +> my request). +> +> It would be easy to check for, and reject, such requests, but should +> md(8) allow people to create such devices? Or am I being silly in even +> asking for it?
This sector size is valid and shouldn't be rejected.
This patch works for me:
http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/md.c.3.patch
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