[mtools] Mtools support for media with >512 byte sectors

[Peter Jeremy]

My wife got a MP3 player for mother's day.  Whilst I managed to
confirm that it was a standard USB mass storage device before buying
it, it doesn't have 512-byte sectors and as a result, mtools on
FreeBSD (6.1-RELEASE) doesn't like it.  I did my testing on
mtools-3.9.9+mtools-3.9.9-20050228.diff but a visual check of the
changes in mtools-3.9.10+mtools-3.9.10-20060228b.diff shows the
problem is still present.

The player identifies as:
umass0: EM706S EM706S MP3 Player, rev 1.10/10.01, addr 2
umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000
umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <EM706S MP3 Player 0100> Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device 
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
da0: 491MB (251456 2048 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 122C)

usbdevs reports:
 port 3 addr 2: full speed, power 100 mA, config 1, EM706S MP3 Player(0x0706), 
EM706S(0x067f), rev 10.01

The problem is the "2048 byte sectors".  mtools is incompatible with
media with anything other than 512-byte sectors.  Whilst there is a
"blocksize" configuration directive, it is over-ridden or ignored in a
number of places in the code.  The first location I found was in
init.c::read_boot() where the read size is limited to 1KB.  After
fixing that, I found that init.c::get_media_type() has 512 bytes
hard coded.  At this point I decided it's not a trivial fix.

Has anyone else looked into fixing this problem?

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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