Re: [MiNT] Dcntl(FS_INFO... on VFAT partitions

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 09:18 +0100, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> I ran into a small problem last night. According to MiNTlib's dcntl.h,
> the upper word of fs_info.type should be 0x3 on minix-partitions, and
> 0x2 on VFAT-partitions. However, on my Milan with 1.170 release
> VFAT-partitions returns 0x3. Is this a bug in FATFS or in MiNTlib? I
> don't have any minix-partitions so I don't know what minixfs returns in
> fs_info.type.

This looks to be a bug in FATFS that tries to be clever and
differentiate between FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. And confusing the entry
with MINIX.

I'll clean this up, and get the changes onto the 1.17 stable branch too.

Thanks Jo Even !

Alan.