Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver

[Mike Fedyk]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:06:45PM +0100, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > What the devil are you doing with get_gendisk() in there?  Neither 2.4
> > nor 2.6 should be messing with it.
> 
> Since this topic has come up, I'd like to ask about something that
> apparently only affects HFS/HFS+. For some reason, Apple decided
> that a Mac style CD-ROM should be a partitioned device. However,
> the Linux kernel is quite insistent that a CD-ROM is not able to
> be partitioned. Because of this, there's a hack to manually read
> a partition map and find the correct part of the block device.
> 

Where can I find this hack?  I just had three CDs from cleints that have
partition maps on them...

I've read them on our Mac (OS9.2), but I'd love to know how to read them
under linux!
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