Subject: Re: PR/34737 CVS commit: src/sys/dev/scsipi
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/09/2006 22:00:11
The following reply was made to PR kern/34737; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: "Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: PR/34737 CVS commit: src/sys/dev/scsipi
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:58:00 +0200
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:29:05 -0600 (MDT)
"Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Steve Woodford wrote:
>
> > This partially addresses the problems reported in PR
> > port-i386/34707 and PR kern/34737. Namely the incorrectly reported
> > drive geometry and the 'hanging' issue.
> >
> > However, since the device in question reports 2048-byte physical
> > sectors it will remain unusable until DEV_BSIZE is banished.
>
> I don't know about the other iPods, but the iPod Nano I tested
> appears to have an HFS filesystem, which will make it even harder to
> mount.
Google SoC 2005 sponsored a project for HFS+, the code is able to
mount volumes with read only support... maybe you want to take a
look at it?