Re: CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables

Thunder from the hill (thunder@lightweight.ods.org)
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:37:22 -0600 (MDT)


Hi,

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> A deficiency in the Linux CDROM driver was just brought to my attention.
> Even on a kernel configured with support for UFS and Sun partition
> tables, it doesn't appear to be possible to mount any but the first
> slice of a Sun CDROM containing multiple slices. Essentially, it seems
> that Solaris partition table support doesn't trickle down to the CDROM
> driver.

I remember someone tangling around with the partitioning code. Care to
comment?

Thunder

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