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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk=llKm+/UWXi4S+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: Brad Boyer <flar=POGeQm5F+FGB+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-hfsplus-devel=5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	linux-fsdevel=u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel=u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:38:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031006193841.GA1366@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031002185248.GA24046@pants.nu>

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!


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-02  8:37 [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver Roman Zippel
2003-10-02 18:02 ` Dave O
2003-10-02 18:30   ` Roman Zippel
2003-10-02 19:00     ` Dave O
2003-10-03  0:26       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-10-03  2:43         ` Dave O
2003-10-02 18:06 ` viro
2003-10-02 18:24   ` Roman Zippel
2003-10-02 18:52   ` Brad Boyer
2003-10-06 19:38     ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-10-06 19:47       ` Brad Boyer
2003-10-03  7:04 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-10-03 10:30   ` Roman Zippel
2003-10-03 22:39     ` J.A. Magallon
2003-10-04  3:00       ` Matthew Wilcox

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