/proc/partitions hosed in 2.4.9-ac10

Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:19:57 -0600


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scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
<Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7880: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs

(scsi0:A:4): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: MOS364 Rev: 1.02
Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(scsi0:A:5): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: MOS364 Rev: 1.02
Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 310352 2048-byte hdwr sectors (636 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors
SCSI device sdb: 310352 2048-byte hdwr sectors (636 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb:<5>ll_rw_block: device 08:10: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
unable to read boot sectors / partition sectors
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$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

8 0 620704 sda
8 16 620704 sdb
8 0 620704 sda
8 16 620704 sdb
8 0 620704 sda
8 16 620704 sdb
8 0 620704 sda
8 16 620704 sdb
8 0 620704 sda
8 16 620704 sdb
8 0 620704 sda
8 16 620704 sdb
8 0 620704 sda
8 16 620704 sdb
<continues forever>

In this case, there is no partition table on the magneto optical media
(since there seems little reason for such things)

$ fdisk -l /dev/sda
Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 151 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 2048 bytes

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
$
$ file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data

-Erik

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Erik B. Andersen   email:  andersee@debian.org, formerly of Lineo
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