mounting VXDOS partitions under linux

mounting VXDOS partitions under linux

[Robert Lowery]

I am trying to mount a hard disk out of a VxWorks based embedded system
under linux.

The partitions on the disk apper to be FAT16, except that instead of
restricting the number of sectors per cluster to be a power of 2 (as assumed
by the linux fat module), they can be anything (eg 40 in the partition I am
trying to mount).

Is anyone aware of existing code that can mount these partitions, or should
I get hacking?

-Robert

Robert Lowery
Software Engineer
Colorbus Australia
1044 Dandenong Road, Carnegie, Victoria 3163
E-mail: robert.lowery@colorbus.com.au
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Re: mounting VXDOS partitions under linux

[David D. Hagood]

One other thing to look out for is that Wind River also has a "long 
filename" FAT-like file system in which directory entries are longer, 
and which allows for longer filenames and case-sensitivity.

(Gads, I hate working with VxWorks. Wish I'd know a couple of years ago 
where Linux was going to be in a few months - I'd've never spec'ed my 
project to run under VxWorks.)

But yes, I would love to see a VxFAT module that could read WRS's 
wonderfully screwed up filesystems.