Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:58:39 -0400 | From | Phil Stracchino <> | Subject | Re: CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables |
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:59:57AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:06, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > 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. > > Brain on stun. Yes ide-scsi is a problem ide-cd gets it right. This is > something that really ought to get fixe durin 2.5
Hrm. Then how does one access the other minors? I tried creating the presumed-appropriate device nodes directly via mknod (cdrom0 was 22,0; I created 22,1 22,2 22,3) without success. I didn't have ide-scsi loaded at the time.
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