Bug 1746 - mkdosfs on sparc 10 floppy seems to fail
Summary: mkdosfs on sparc 10 floppy seems to fail
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mkdosfs-ygg
Version: 6.0
Hardware: sparc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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: 1745 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-03-24 19:18 UTC by David Lawrence
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 1999-04-17 11:45:35 UTC
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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.
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