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Subject: Re: CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:06, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 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.

Brain on stun. Yes ide-scsi is a problem ide-cd gets it right. This is
something that really ought to get fixe durin 2.5

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