Re: [Info-mtools] What does it take to support FAT12 dialects?

[Alexander Huemer]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 11:22:51AM +0000, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:01:55PM +0200, Alain Knaff wrote:
> > On 07/06/2021 12:54, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> > [...]
> > > My attempt was probably foolish...
> > > 
> > > Though, I don't have success with your suggestion either.
> > > 
> > > $ ~/src/_readonly/mtools/mtools-4.0.28/mcopy -i 
> > > /tmp/foo.img\|data_map=1s,zero31s,28s,skip1s * ::
> > > Cannot initialize '::'
> > > Bad target ::
> > > 
> > > -Alex
> > > 
> > 
> > Probably the image file got indeed damaged by the badly ordered command
> > line of the first attempt (i.e. one of the files got copied over it
> > rather than into it), and so the image file was no longer recognized as
> > a valid DOS filesystem image.
> > 
> > Could you check with mdir whether the image is still ok (as this
> > previously succeeded)? If not, you might need to start over with a fresh
> > image (mformat, or copy of an existing image).
> 
> $ rm /tmp/foo.img
> $ ~/src/_readonly/mtools/mtools-4.0.28/mformat -C -T 4800 -h 2 -s 30 -H 
> 1710948352 -i "/tmp/foo.img|data_map=1s,zero31s,28s,skip1s" ::
> $ ~/src/_readonly/mtools/mtools-4.0.28/mcopy -i 
> /tmp/foo.img\|data_map=1s,zero31s,28s,skip1s * ::
> Cannot initialize '::'
> Bad target ::
> $

Alain, any idea on this?

-Alex