Re: SCSI DVD-RAM partitions

2005-08-05 Thread Thomas Heinz
Hi Christoph You wrote: >>Ok, thanks for your valuable input. In fact, I thought about making >>the device available both as /dev/srX and /dev/sdX at the same time >>in order to support partitions. In my case it would even suffice to >>make it available as /dev/sdX instead of /dev/srX. > > That d

Re: SCSI DVD-RAM partitions

2005-07-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:23:17AM +0200, Thomas Heinz wrote: > Hi Christoph > > You wrote: > >While adding support for partitions on sr is trivial it has a huge > >drawback: it's chaning the dev_t space by using up device numbers > >for partitions, so /dev/sr0 ff will have different device number

Re: SCSI DVD-RAM partitions

2005-07-12 Thread Thomas Heinz
Hi Christoph You wrote: While adding support for partitions on sr is trivial it has a huge drawback: it's chaning the dev_t space by using up device numbers for partitions, so /dev/sr0 ff will have different device numbers with that change applied. I have an old patch that's supposed to enable

Re: SCSI DVD-RAM partitions

2005-07-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:32:47PM +0200, Thomas Heinz wrote: > Is it possible to make the DVD-RAM partitions available as device > nodes (or at least directly mountable without the losetup hack)? > One solution would be to make the device available as /dev/sdX and > /dev/srX. Is that possible? Wh

SCSI DVD-RAM partitions

2005-07-09 Thread Thomas Heinz
Hi My SCSI DVD-RAM is available as /dev/sr1. fdisk -l /dev/sr1 shows for a certain medium: Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512) Disk /dev/sr1: 2496 MB, 2496430080 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 75 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 2048 = 32901120 bytes Device Boot Start