Subject: Re: Disklabel(5)/(8) ??
To: Hauke Fath <saw@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/07/1996 13:11:56
> 
> Hi y'all,
> 
> coming the 'natural' way through the iwm driver (autoconfig code,
> ioctls, fdopen(), I am digressing a bit at the moment and hacking at the
> disklabel code. I shall need it soon...
> 
> I have re-enabled setdisklabel() and writedisklabel() in
> mac68k/disksubr.c, fixed what I think is a minor bug in readdisklabel(),
> dropped in some comments and am now able to read and write native
> disklabels just fine.

What are "native" disklabels? If they're different from Apple's partitioning
stuff, why do we want them?

Take care,

Bill