Re: fdisk -l finds CD-ROM

Hubert Mantel (mantel@suse.de)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:34:05 +0200 (MEST)


On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> I don't know whether this is a kernel issue; anyway:
> When I start "fdisk -l" my CD-ROM drive spins up and then fdisk reports
> the same geometry for /dev/hdd (CD) as for /dev/hda (disk), but no
> partition table. Is the CD-ROM drive broken, the kernel, or fdisk?

It's fdisk. The global variable "part_table" is not properly initialized
for every device.

> Ulrich

Hubert mantel@suse.de

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