On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> >If the lack of a valid partition table tells the IDE driver to fail the
> >device and *the whole disk entries* don't work afterwards, then I
> >consider that a bug in the IDE driver. Who owns those these days?
>
> Well it was also via a PCMCIA adapter so that may have had something
> to do with it. I have a CF to IDE adapter around here somewhere. If
> I can dig it up then I can test the "raw device" thing.
That's a possibility; the cardmanager might have gotten confused.
> Got any pointers to docs for raw devices.. Perhaps its in the kernel
> docs?
Turns out that you can do character operations on the block devices.
Cheers,
-- jra
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