Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 1998 02:41:19 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | | Subject | unneeded disk info |
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The kernel does not need to read partition tables on every disk. There is no reason to spin up my Zip disk until I use it. The kernel can just leave everything unknown, including the block size and disk size.
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table
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