> Well, maybe not for floppy disks. :-)  Sigh.  

Right. For floppies the minor device number indexes not partitions but
physical formats; I had confised in-core labels with those actually
written to media.

> I wasn't being totally brain
> damaged though; it's quite conceivable that this would be highly useful on
> other forms of writable removable media, e.g. Zip, Jaz, or Syquest
> drives.  Wouldn't it be swell to be able to pop a Zip disk from your Mac
> into, say, an Atari, Amiga, or HP machine, and it Just Worked?
> 
> --scott

It's at your fingertips.  ;-)

        hauke

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