On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:36:33AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Thats what I thought as well... But the linux disk driver depends on
> being able to read the partition table. Since that errors out the
> kernel never gets told that the device exists. All the disk editors
> I tried under linux suffered the same problem.
If the lack of a valid partition table tells the IDE driver to fail the
device and *the whole disk entries* don't work afterwards, then I
consider that a bug in the IDE driver. Who owns those these days?
Cheers,
-- jra
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