The following reply was made to PR kern/17398; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/17398 CVS commit: src/sbin/newfs_msdos
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:29:33 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	scw
 Date:		Sat Nov 25 12:29:33 UTC 2006
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/sbin/newfs_msdos: newfs_msdos.8 newfs_msdos.c
 
 Log Message:
 Don't use negative offsets from "bpb.bps" when writing out values such
 as DOSMAGIC in the MBR. In non-512 byte media, the MBR is still 512
 bytes in length.
 
 Based on the patches provided in PR kern/17398 by Trevin Beattie.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.14 -r1.15 src/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8
 cvs rdiff -r1.23 -r1.24 src/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c
 
 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.