Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:22:15 +0100 (BST)
> > > Either fix fdisk(8) to not try and read partition table
> > > info for non-disks (it can use /proc/ide/*/media for this),
> >
> > That is a broken solution. Non PC IDE disks are normally partitioned. It's
> > unfortunate that there is still no sign of IDE support for this.
>
> Eh? What do you mean, Alan?
>
> These are not disks that folks are talking about,
> but rather, tapes and cdroms, which are *not* normally
> partitioned.
Humm.. Sorry I meant to say "Non PC IDE CDROMS" are normally partitioned. It's
unfortuanate there is still no sign of IDE support for this. For sparc, ppc,
powermac, mac68k we really really do need partition support for CDROM
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