Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:38:41 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver |
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:06:45PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > What the devil are you doing with get_gendisk() in there? Neither 2.4 > > nor 2.6 should be messing with it. > > Since this topic has come up, I'd like to ask about something that > apparently only affects HFS/HFS+. For some reason, Apple decided > that a Mac style CD-ROM should be a partitioned device. However, > the Linux kernel is quite insistent that a CD-ROM is not able to > be partitioned. Because of this, there's a hack to manually read > a partition map and find the correct part of the block device. >
Where can I find this hack? I just had three CDs from cleints that have partition maps on them...
I've read them on our Mac (OS9.2), but I'd love to know how to read them under linux! - 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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