Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist
mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:29:53 -0400
marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl wrote:
...
> - change device numbers for IDE CD-ROMs so that they are
> different than those of IDE hard disks (after all, they are
> completely different devices which just happen to share the
> same hardware interface) for consistency with SCSI devices
> (where disk and cdrom with the same SCSI ID are different -
> as they should), and to avoid fdisk -l trying to read the
> partition table from a CD-ROM or (worse) empty CD-ROM drive.
Either fix fdisk(8) to not try and read partition table
info for non-disks (it can use /proc/ide/*/media for this),
or incorporate devfs to obtain drive-type-specific naming.
--
mlord@pobox.com
the Linux IDE guy
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