Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist

mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 22:01:00 -0400


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 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.

-- 
mlord@pobox.com
The Linux IDE guy

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