On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:42:45PM -0400, Jesus Molina wrote:
> This has been done before, with the Pcimsg driver. But I would rather use
> the ebsa285 as a "rogue" device stealing data from the host hard-disk.
I wasn't specifically suggesting to use the PCI msg driver. I'd suggest
coming up with a safe spinlock-type mechanism where either host can
access the hard disk (hopefully not write to the same partition though),
but not both at the same time.
> And about the issue of not detecting the partitions, any pointers?
Did you compile in support for MSDOS partitions? You probably want:
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION=n
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
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