On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:41:38 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>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?
Well it was also via a PCMCIA adapter so that may have had something
to do with it. I have a CF to IDE adapter around here somewhere. If
I can dig it up then I can test the "raw device" thing.
Got any pointers to docs for raw devices.. Perhaps its in the kernel
docs?
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