diff -ruN cpio-2.9.90.orig/NEWS cpio-2.9.90/NEWS
--- cpio-2.9.90.orig/NEWS	2008-02-08 10:35:29.000000000 +0100
+++ cpio-2.9.90/NEWS	2008-07-18 10:56:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 Version 2.9.90 (CVS)
 
 * Support MinGW builds (thanks to Robert Millan)
+* Support major/minor device numbers over 127 (rhbz #450109)
 
 
 Version 2.9 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-28
diff -ruN cpio-2.9.90.orig/src/copyin.c cpio-2.9.90/src/copyin.c
--- cpio-2.9.90.orig/src/copyin.c	2008-07-11 13:20:27.000000000 +0200
+++ cpio-2.9.90/src/copyin.c	2008-07-18 10:55:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -1269,15 +1269,15 @@
       swab_array ((char *) short_hdr, 13);
     }
 
-  file_hdr->c_dev_maj = major (short_hdr->c_dev);
-  file_hdr->c_dev_min = minor (short_hdr->c_dev);
+  file_hdr->c_dev_maj = major ((unsigned short)short_hdr->c_dev);
+  file_hdr->c_dev_min = minor ((unsigned short)short_hdr->c_dev);
   file_hdr->c_ino = short_hdr->c_ino;
   file_hdr->c_mode = short_hdr->c_mode;
   file_hdr->c_uid = short_hdr->c_uid;
   file_hdr->c_gid = short_hdr->c_gid;
   file_hdr->c_nlink = short_hdr->c_nlink;
-  file_hdr->c_rdev_maj = major (short_hdr->c_rdev);
-  file_hdr->c_rdev_min = minor (short_hdr->c_rdev);
+  file_hdr->c_rdev_maj = major ((unsigned short)short_hdr->c_rdev);
+  file_hdr->c_rdev_min = minor ((unsigned short)short_hdr->c_rdev);
   file_hdr->c_mtime = (unsigned long) short_hdr->c_mtimes[0] << 16
                       | short_hdr->c_mtimes[1];