From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Phil Stracchino <alaric@babcom.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:06:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020912050620.GG30234@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031779715.2838.4.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, Sep 11 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 22:19, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >
> > A deficiency in the Linux CDROM driver was just brought to my attention.
> > Even on a kernel configured with support for UFS and Sun partition
> > tables, it doesn't appear to be possible to mount any but the first
> > slice of a Sun CDROM containing multiple slices. Essentially, it seems
> > that Solaris partition table support doesn't trickle down to the CDROM
> > driver.
> >
> > Is this something that's supposed to happen, and is there a reason why
> > it's not supported, or is it simply that no-one has asked for it to be
> > supported and/or no-one has gotten around to implementing it because of
> > lack of demand?
>
> It ought to be supportable on scsi cd or with ide-scsi. ide-cd has no
> minor space for partitioning, ide-scsi/sr do support partitions.
The opposite, surely? sr uses one minor per cd-rom, ide-cd has 64.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-04 18:19 PROBLEM: Kernel 2.4.19 does not export _mmx_memcpy when compiled with gcc-3.2 and Athlon optimizations Phil Stracchino
2002-09-04 18:48 ` FOLLOWUP: " Phil Stracchino
2002-09-04 23:35 ` PROBLEM: " Alan Cox
2002-09-05 1:16 ` Phil Stracchino
2002-09-11 21:19 ` CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables Phil Stracchino
2002-09-11 21:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-12 5:06 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-09-12 7:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-12 19:58 ` Phil Stracchino
2002-09-11 21:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-09-11 21:39 ` Phil Stracchino
2002-09-11 21:37 ` Thunder from the hill
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