From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261639AbTJFTir (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261645AbTJFTiq (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:38:46 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:49678 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261644AbTJFTim (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:38:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:38:41 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Brad Boyer Cc: linux-hfsplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver Message-ID: <20031006193841.GA1366@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Brad Boyer , linux-hfsplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031002180645.GG7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20031002185248.GA24046@pants.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031002185248.GA24046@pants.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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@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!