From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andries Brouwer Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4054] New: USB keychain drive sda1 points to partition table, not partition Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:37:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20050117203715.GC24097@apps.cwi.nl> References: <20050117094325.0b54606c.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:30596 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261423AbVAQUhV (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:37:21 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050117094325.0b54606c.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:43:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:21:30 -0800 > From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org > To: bugme-new@lists.osdl.org > Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4054] New: USB keychain drive sda1 points to partition table, not partition > > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4054 > > Summary: USB keychain drive sda1 points to partition table, not > partition > > Jan 17 03:52:00 erg kernel: /dev/scsi/host11/bus0/target0/lun0: [CUMANA/ADFS] Aha - this user compiled all partition types into his kernel, and CUMANA/ADFS was first recognized, before DOS. So, removing this type from the collection of types that the kernel knows about will improve things. It is always a problem when the kernel guesses - there is the nonzero probability that it guesses wrong. Andries