Well, it took me a *long* time. And I had to have help from a real C programmer. Someone who knew what they were doing (i.e. someone proficient in C) could have easily done it in an afternoon, I'm sure. But I have managed to add support for CMS formatted disks to parted. This will go a long way, maybe all the way, to adding support for CMS formatted disks to the Debian installer. It only works on CKD DASD, and then only when using the ECKD driver (not the DIAG driver). But switching to the DIAG driver after installation for CMS formatted disks on CKD DASD is no problem. I don't have any FBA DASD to test with; so I didn't bother even trying to add support for CMS minidisks on FBA DASD.
After some more testing and code cleanup, I will open a bug report against parted with severity wishlist for adding support for CMS minidisks. Patch files will be included. As an added bonus, it will include a bug fix for correctly calculating the starting "sector" for an ldl formatted disk if the block size is other than 4096. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/589265991.57405.1271381734077.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
