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On Wed, Sep 11 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 22:19, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > > A deficiency in the Linux CDROM driver was just brought to my attention. > > Even on a kernel configured with support for UFS and Sun partition > > tables, it doesn't appear to be possible to mount any but the first > > slice of a Sun CDROM containing multiple slices. Essentially, it seems > > that Solaris partition table support doesn't trickle down to the CDROM > > driver. > > > > Is this something that's supposed to happen, and is there a reason why > > it's not supported, or is it simply that no-one has asked for it to be > > supported and/or no-one has gotten around to implementing it because of > > lack of demand? > > It ought to be supportable on scsi cd or with ide-scsi. ide-cd has no > minor space for partitioning, ide-scsi/sr do support partitions. The opposite, surely? sr uses one minor per cd-rom, ide-cd has 64. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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