[parted-devel] ms-dos & pc98 disk label

[kamesh waran]

Hi list,

    I have a scsi disk drive which has been partition by sfdisk. When I used Parted-1.8.2
to print the partitions, It gave me the below error.

"No Implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries"

I have gone through the code and it seems like it sequentially checks for amiga, bsd....etc and ms-dos
disk labels. When probing for ms-dos, it matches the DOS PARTITION-MAGIC. But it also matches the pc98 when it
come across the below code in ms_dos_probe. pc98_probe in turn calls the read_table and there i got the above error.

#ifdef ENABLE_PC98
        /* HACK: it's impossible to tell PC98 and msdos disk labels apart.
         * Someone made the signatures the same (very clever).  Since
         * PC98 has some idiosyncracies with it's boot-loader, it's detection
         * is more reliable */
         disk_type = ped_disk_type_get ("pc98");
        if (disk_type && disk_type->ops->probe (dev))
                return 0;
#endif /* ENABLE_PC98 */

When i commented out the above calls to pc98 probe in ms_dos_probe, it shows me the correct listing of the disk.
Is ms_dos and pc98 disk label are same ? 

Can you please through some light on this.

Thanks,
Kamesh




	
	
		
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