Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:24:13 -0600 (MDT) | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist |
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, 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. > > Humm.. Sorry I meant to say "Non PC IDE CDROMS" are normally partitioned. It's > unfortuanate there is still no sign of IDE support for this. For sparc, ppc, > powermac, mac68k we really really do need partition support for CDROM > >
Well, as Uniform and ide-cdrom maintainer and I still don't understand. What exactly is "partition support for CDROM"? No cdrom standard I am familiar with describes a "CDROM partition". I don't claim to know everything (far from it), but I am fairly familiar with CDROMs... Do your mean the ability to mount individual sessions on a multi-session CDROM? Could you show me some documentation on what is you want Linux to support cdrom-wise? Is there some standard API out there for doing whatever this is (i.e. Does Sun do this?)?
-Erik
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