Package: dosfstools Version: 3.0.13-1 Severity: important TechniSat DVB receivers like the HD S2 Plus only accept FAT32 formatted external HDDs. If such a FAT32 file system is generated using mkdosfs, the disk won't be detected, and the DVB receiver freezes when trying to access the file system.
While this is certainly a bug in the receiver firmware, it should be fixed in mkdosfs nonetheless, because this problem doesn't occur with FAT32 partitions generated by other tools. I originally observed this under OpenSUSE, but as the dosfstools maintainer in Debian is also the upstream maintainer, I'm posting it here. All testing was done with the Debian "sid" release of dosfstools (3.0.13-1), self-compiled in the OpenSUSE environment. I am positive that the problems are caused by the dosfstools package itself, not by the environment. By trial and error, and by comparing mkdosfs generated FAT32 file systems to the results of the "h2format" tool under Windows, I came up with a couple of patches that I'm going to attach here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
