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> Minix floppies are partitioned.
>
Facts are such inconvenient things.

I'm still looking for a way to iterate through partitions without incurring
the floppy timeout, something like this:
   for dev in *; do
     if ! regexp "\(fd[0-9]\)" $dev; then
       for part in ($dev,*); do

I can see how to change the *-expansion logic so * wouldn't read partmaps
(since it only matches devices anyway) and so (hd0,*) would only access hd0.