Subject: mtools Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 11:02:52 CET From: Wolfgang Thiel <UPSYF173%DBIUNI11.BITNET@FINHUTC.hut.fi>
Hi,
Has somebody been looking into the mtools sources? I had problems
with it and BIGDOS partitions: mtools did not look for the NumberOfSec-
tors at the right offset in the root sector. I now get the proper in-
formation concerning NofTracks/NofSectors for my big DOS partition, but
nevertheless, it is not working right for big sector numbers. After a
lot of printf's in the sources I now suspect there is an error in the
LINUX hd driver. Did somebody else had problems with big sector num-
bers? By the way: 16 bit INT'ers will have problems with instructions
like block = num >>BLOCKSIZE_BITS. This can lead to unwanted values
if the high bit is set, if I understand the C definitions of right shift
right.
Wolfgang