Bug 40858
| Summary: | Incorrect data reading at not 1.44 format | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <froufe> |
| Component: | mtools | Assignee: | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-05-16 11:47:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description of Problem: Incorrect data reading at not 1.44 format, with a non-standard format. Solved with configuration modification How Reproducible: Follow the steps below Steps to Reproduce: 1. Low-level format with program like 'superformat'. Format at 1.68M (like MS-DMF) 2. High-level format: mformat -t 80 -h 2 -s 21 -r 3 -c 8 a: 3. Copy a file to floppy (with mcopy) 4. mdir 5. Read that file (with mcopy) 6. diff file.writted file.readed Actual Results: Data incongruencies. Data readed differ from writted. Note. Reproducibility depends on file size, greater files ensure more Additional Information: Package: mtools-3.9.7-3 Solution: Edit configuration file /etc/mtools.conf or apply diff. Remove de 1.44 directive. ******************************** --- mtools.conf.orig Wed May 16 12:38:57 2001 +++ mtools.conf Wed May 16 12:43:39 2001 @@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ # your architecture and comment out the "SAMPLE FILE" line below # Linux floppy drives -drive a: file="/dev/fd0" exclusive 1.44m mformat_only -drive b: file="/dev/fd1" exclusive 1.44m mformat_only +#drive a: file="/dev/fd0" exclusive 1.44m mformat_only +#drive b: file="/dev/fd1" exclusive 1.44m mformat_only +drive a: file="/dev/fd0" exclusive mformat_only +drive b: file="/dev/fd1" exclusive mformat_only # First SCSI hard disk partition #drive c: file="/dev/sda1" ********************************