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    fat: detect media without partition table correctly · 0607fd02
    Frank Seidel authored
    
    
    I received a complaint that some FAT formated medias (e.g.  sd memory cards)
    trigger a "unknown partition table" message even though there is no partition
    table and they work correctly, while in general (when e.g.  formated with
    mkdosfs or even Windows Vista) this message is not shown.
    
    Currently this seems only to happen when the medias get formatted with Windows
    XP (and possibly Win 2000).  Then the boot indicator byte contains garbage
    (part of text message) and so do the other parts checked by msdos_paritition
    which then later triggers this message.
    
    References: novell bug #364365
    
    Most fat formatted media without partition table contains zeros in the boot
    indication and the other tested bytes and so falls through the checks in
    msdos_partition, leading it to return with 1 (all is fine).
    
    But some (e.g.  WinXP formatted) fat fomated medias don't use boot_ind and so
    the check fails and causes a "unkown partition table" warning eventhough there
    is none and everything would be fine.
    
    This additional check directly verifies if there is a fat formatted medium
    without a partition table.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Seidel <fseidel@suse.de>
    Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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