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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