Subject: Re: floppy ioctls
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/09/1996 08:21:14
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.

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