Subject: Re: floppy ioctls
To: None <news@maple-gw.maple.or.jp>
From: Hauke Fath <saw@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/11/1996 04:01:56
> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:13:56 -0700 (PDT)
> wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:
>
> > I'm confused. If floppies have no partitions, what does the partition
> > table in a disklabel look like?
>
> Either:
>
> a) RAW_PART has entire disk contents, or
>
> b) every partition has entire disk contents.
>
> The former is more correct. With floppies, the disklabel is mostly a
> formality that you have to stick with.
>
> Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Thanx for the clarification. I shall do b).
hauke
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