Mostlt RH 6.2 on sparc64. 2.2.18 works fine. A strace(1) of a failed
mdir(1) ends:

open("/dev/fd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)  = 3
SYS_63()                                = 0
flock(3, LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB)               = 0
ioctl(3, FDGETPRM, 0xefffde98)          = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
close(3)                                = 0
write(2, "init: set default params\n", 25init: set default params
) = 25
write(2, "Cannot initialize \'A:\'\n", 23Cannot initialize 'A:'
) = 23
exit(1)                                 = ?
-- 
Dr. Horst H. von Brand                       mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
Departamento de Informatica                     Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria              +56 32 654239
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