Subject: Re: port-i386/269: buglet in [i386] /sys/scsi/sd.c
To: John Brezak <brezak@ch.hp.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/29/1994 22:13:16
> >Description:
> When attempting to disklabel a fresh SCSI disk, the default label for the
> 'd' partition is created with a fs_type of 9. This probably should be a
> FS_UNUSED. Also in the sdopen() routine there is a check if the partition
> is 'd' and it is FS_UNUSED, then ENXIO. It seems that the login is reversed
> in the check for FS_UNUSED. Otherwise how can you label an 'unused' partition ?

While this is being fixed, the entire notion of 'd' should be removed.
It's broken, and completely meaningless on most architectures, and a
wasted partition slot on all.



cgd

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