Re: tlug: Reading 640 MB MO

[Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@example.com>]

Hello all,I have managed to read the 640MB MO on Linux. Please ignore my
earlier question (below) and thanks for all the help.
raghavan@example.com
> thanks everyone for the help.
> The Kernel that I am using is 2.0.30. I have never patched the Kernel. So
> if it is not a bother can you please tell me how do I apply the
> patch after downloading . Do I have to remake the Kernel after I do the
> patch ?
> Thanks in advance
> raghavan@example.com

Jim Tittsler wrote:

1. 640MB MO media uses 2048 byte sectors. Are you using a recent 2.1.x
kernel?  Or have you patched your 2.0.x kernel to add support for the 640MB
disc's 2048 byte sectors?  (I use the 2.0.x patches found at
http://liniere.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/2048.html )

2. There are (at least) three ways that are used to format/partition MO
disks.  They can be treated as "super floppies" as one unpartitioned mass
or they can be partitioned like a hard disk.  (And some third way that the
Fujitsu formatting software offered me but which seemed to be some unique
partitioning scheme.)  If you are using a 2048-byte-sector-aware kernel,
and can't mount /dev/sda (aka super floppy mode), try running 'fdisk /dev/sda'
and displaying the partition map.  If the disk is partitioned, you'll want
something like 'mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt'

Jim