Re: sym/ncr53c8xx phase error still present in 2.2.7

Shaw Carruthers (shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 06 May 1999 11:10:13 +0100


Since I only have the problem with FAT/SMBFS maybe the following which was posted
today is relevant, I will check it out.

> The only change since v16:
> Fix for Microsoft idiocy wrt so-called FAT32. Actually it's FAT28.
> In other words, upper 4 bits of FAT entry are "reserved and undefined".
> I.e. contain random garbage. Fix: in fat_access() &=0xfffffff before any
> further tests.
> If you've seen random "attempt to access beyond end of device" on
> FAT filesystems that were OK from the Windows POV - see if this patch will
> fix the situation.
>
> Patch lives on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/fat-patch-17.gz
> Cheers,
> Al
> --
>

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