Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:29:53 -0400 | From | mlord <> | Subject | Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist |
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marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl wrote: ... > - change device numbers for IDE CD-ROMs so that they are > different than those of IDE hard disks (after all, they are > completely different devices which just happen to share the > same hardware interface) for consistency with SCSI devices > (where disk and cdrom with the same SCSI ID are different - > as they should), and to avoid fdisk -l trying to read the > partition table from a CD-ROM or (worse) empty CD-ROM drive.
Either fix fdisk(8) to not try and read partition table info for non-disks (it can use /proc/ide/*/media for this), or incorporate devfs to obtain drive-type-specific naming. -- mlord@pobox.com the Linux IDE guy
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