Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:30:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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Subject: Re: Making MO drive work with ide-cd
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Hmm. Looked at it. But it cannot help. All it does is move
> cdrom_read_capacity().

That's enough for unpartitioned disks. It works here.

> But ide-cd remains fundamentally broken for disks.
> It sends cdrom commands, and they fail, and it does not do
> disk things that are needed. First of all, we need partitions,
> but ide-cd.c puts g->minors = 1.

Well, I'm welcome to other ideas, but to me everything is the
better than the current mainline 2.6 situation - which is "doesn't
work at all, no matter what you try".

The ide-cd solution doesn't get you partitions, but using the
medium as a superfloppy works for me.

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal

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