> > Well, maybe not for floppy disks. :-)  Sigh.  
> 
> Right. For floppies the minor device number indexes not partitions but
> physical formats; I had confused in-core labels with those actually
> written to media.

Nevertheless, at least the sparc port's fd driver looks for a disklabel
on the floppy. Just FYI...

        hauke

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