Bug 1746

Summary:	mkdosfs on sparc 10 floppy seems to fail
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Component:	mkdosfs-ygg	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	dkl, jbj, msw, notting
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Description Derek Tattersall 1999-03-24 19:18:54 UTC

mkdosfs ran to completion.  mdir on sparc failed.  did an
mdir on an intel, which gets a floating point exeception.
Appears to be a problem in mkdosfs.
used mkdosfs on intel, then mdir.  mdir works.

Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-03-26 21:31:59 UTC

*** Bug 1745 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Attempting to do mdir a: on a freshly mkdosfs'ed floppy,
mdir crashes with illegal instruction.probably an endian-ness issue.  Anyone want to grab this one?

Comment 2 David Miller 1999-04-17 11:45:59 UTC

It was an endianness bug, patch being sent to Gafton.