You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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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