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