On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:51:02PM +0200, Tomasz Motylewski wrote:
> > Although I *do* think it would need to be a character device for that
> > to work... which I don't see by default on my RH6.1 system; *are* there
> > character devices for the partitions?
>
> No, but you can use block devices same way as character devices. For example
> cat, grep etc.
Really? I hadn't realized that. Cool.
> And I really think that /dev/hda (not hda1) is possible to read/write
> without partition table. Therefore I think that the problem is even lower
> level than partition table - probably some meta information needed by IDE
> interface.
Well, I'd expect that too, but The Other Guy<tm> is sayin' no.
Cheers,
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