From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
Cc: linux-hfsplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk 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!
next prev parent 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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