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Subject: Re: CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Phil Stracchino <alaric@babcom.com>
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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.

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