From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261639AbTJFTir (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261645AbTJFTiq (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:38:46 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:49678 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261644AbTJFTim (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:38:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:38:41 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Brad Boyer Cc: linux-hfsplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver Message-ID: <20031006193841.GA1366@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Brad Boyer , linux-hfsplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031002180645.GG7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20031002185248.GA24046@pants.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031002185248.GA24046@pants.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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! From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Fedyk Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:38:41 -0700 Sender: linux-hfsplus-devel-admin=5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20031006193841.GA1366@matchmail.com> References: <20031002180645.GG7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20031002185248.GA24046@pants.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-hfsplus-devel=5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel=u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel=u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Return-path: To: Brad Boyer Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031002185248.GA24046@pants.nu> Errors-To: linux-hfsplus-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:06:45PM +0100, viro=+pPCBgu9SkPzIGdyhVEDUDl5KyyQGfY2kSSpQ9I8OhVaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org 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! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf