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DateFri, 2 Jan 1998 02:41:19 -0500 (EST)
From"Albert D. Cahalan" <>
Subjectunneeded disk info
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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