Subject: NeXT floppys
To: None <port-next68k@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-next68k
Date: 01/02/2001 17:46:18
I have a NeXT-formatted floppy with an msdos filesystem [1], but
mount_msdos doesn't grok it.  mtools has no problem.  the bootsector
looks like this:

0000000 00e9 4e00 5845 2054 2020 0020 0102 0001
0000010 e002 4000 f00b 0009 0012 0002 0000 0000
0000020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 5500 544e 5449
0000030 454c 4444 5349 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000040 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

with nulls all the way up to 512 bytes.

even file doesn't know what it is since it's missing the sequence 0xaa55
at offset 0x01fe.  (I haven't tried modifying the disk yet...)

seems like it would be trivial to update the code in the msdos mounting
routines, if only I knew where to look.  :)

fantastic news about SCSI, Darrin.  who should I pester about getting
the non-512 byte per sector disks supported?  Almost all of Koji's PRs
are still open!  :)

[1] the disk is from Richard Crandall's book _Projects in Scientific
    Computation_ in case anybody's curious.

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