Hi Phil! On 05/11/2018 04:18 PM, Phil Susi wrote:
It seems that the atari label likes to falsely recognize dos labels as atari. Looking at atari_probe, it doesn't seem like this is very hard to do. All that it needs is one word for the size of the disk to be less than the physical size of the disk, two bsl words to be zero or less than the disk size, the partition start and length words to fit within the disk, and 3 bytes to appear to be ascii characters. Is there any way that this can be beefed up at all?
Thanks for digging this up. I wasn't aware of this particular issue before and I agree, this needs to be addressed. I hope that I didn't cause too many DOS partitions to be misdetected. Sorry for the inconvenience if I did. The Atari partition table code has been working great for Debian/m68k so far though.
For instance, the name field.. is it really free form ascii or is there a specific set of strings that could be limited to? Also this XGM and ICD parts; are they completely optional, so we can't require one of those be detected too?
I don't know by heart, but chapter 9 in this Atari filesystem reference might help us:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/Atari_HD_File_Sytem_Reference_Guide.pdf
I have also CC'ed the Linux/m68k and Debian/m68k mailing lists in case some of the guys there knows the answer faster. Again, sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. I will look into how we can improve atari_probe(). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
