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Re: [Question] rscsi_disks[].device being NULL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guest section DW)
Tue Jan 18 14:05:36 2000
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:11:24 +0100
From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: "Eric Youngdale" <eric@andante.org>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
<linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <002501bf6143$732e4ae0$940310ac@fairfax.datafocus.com>; from Eric Youngdale on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 06:34:42PM -0500
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 06:34:42PM -0500, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> ... A partition table is
> traditionally at the start of a disk, so for the purposes of reading the
> partition table we could initialize the capacity to some small value in
> sd_attach.
Doesnt work. A DOS-type partition table is a linked chain
of which the first part is the MBR, sector 0. But following
parts, with descriptors for logical partitions, are scattered
all over the disk.
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