Hello! I had a strange observation a few weeks ago that I intended to check with you guys, but then forgot all about. :P
I was restoring some old amiga systems, and in that process needed to get software onto floppies. I have a catweasel and can write out so called ADF files (amiga floppy images) to floppies just fine with it (excellent hardware). The problem I had was creating ADFs on linux, I assumes I could just loopback-mount them with affs and just write files to them, but no - I always ended up getting I/O-error, and the kernel put the filesystem write-protected. Deleting files seems to work ok, but once you try to write a file, the filesystem chokes, becomes write-protected and the resulting file is a 0-byte entry. But I didnt give up there, I tried on different systems... much to my amusement it worked fine on my linux/m68k systems - amigas, macs and aranym alike! OK, I thought, maybe endianness, so I tried on my ppc ibook running linux - same failures as on the PCs. So - something is done very correct on m68k in regard to affs, that isnt done correct on other archs. Anyone know what that might be? (All systems I tried with were running 2.6.2x, ubuntu, debian, gentoo) Cheers! -- kolla -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
