meulenbr@cst.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) (07/17/90)
Hi! I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but fs/cache.c refuses to read a block partially in the function rw_block. If a part of a block is read, END_OF_FILE is marked, and the block is invalidated. This is annoying since on the ST the partition table itself is accessible through /dev/hd0, which is defined as a partition of 1 sector. Currently there is no way to access this sector, so I changed the partition size to 2 sectors. However, I'm not sure if rw_block shouldn't have me given half a block. -- Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology ( or try: ...!mcsun!phigate!prle!cst!meulenbr)
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (07/18/90)
I am not sure if such information should be searched in /dev/rhd0 instead of /dev/hd0.... I suppose you _can_ read a single sector from /dev/rhdo, am I right? C.v.W.