Re: mount hfs on SCSI cdrom = segfault

Nehal (nehal@canada.com)
Thu, 03 Apr 2003 01:10:59 -0800


Giuliano Pochini wrote:

>On 02-Apr-2003 Nehal wrote:
>
>
>>ok you are right! i set hdc=scsi, reboot, and mounted my
>>ide cdrom drive (device /dev/scd1) as hfs, and boom
>>it crashed with same message :) this is good, at least
>>i know its not my scsi drive/controller at fault
>>
>>so definitely a bug in scsi somehow or somewhere,
>>so i guess anyone with a hfs cd can reproduce, so
>>somebody please fix :)
>>
>>
>
>Once upon a time it worked just fine. Then someone removed
>support for !=512 bytes sectors...
>To workaround, use loopback.
>
(yes Oliver has told me about this workaround)

1. do u know why it was removed?
2. is there a reason why can't support for it be put back?

thx, Nehal

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