From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261521AbTDCSWp (for ); Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:22:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261542AbTDCSWp (for ); Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:22:45 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:32649 "EHLO pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261521AbTDCSWj (for ); Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:22:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:34:52 -0800 From: Nehal Subject: Re: mount hfs on SCSI cdrom = segfault In-reply-to: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3E8C7ECC.70300@canada.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Giuliano Pochini wrote: >>>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? >> >> > >I don't know why, and I don't know if it was removed from the >hfs code or if hfs relied on some features of a lower layer >that has been modified. > > i did some searching around and only found that this problem started during 2.3.x because of a scsi rewrite anyways, i did try the loop method, it did not work, i got a segmentation fault when i did the following: losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/scd0 mount -r -t hfs /dev/loop0 /cdrom oh well, i'll just use my IDE drive for now.. thx anyways, Nehal