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SubjectRe: scsi naming (was: devfs patch v3)
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> > Secondly, take drives don't have partitions. I dunno about CD-ROMS.
>
> There are, look at Solaris installation CDs. They have a standard Sun disk
> label in the first 512B (ISO9660 allows this, first 32K I think are left
> free). But current linux sr code doesn't support it. So that if you have
> such a CD, you can access the first partition only.

Both tapes and cd:s can have partitions. Tape-partitions are normally
accessed through mt(1) calls and not a special device. I don't think I
have seen one of those tapes in some time now.

There are some cd:s which are partitioned, most notably cd:s that are
bootable on a sun.

Peter
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