Re: partition table problem with 2.4.21-rc7

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-06-04 at 08:23, Luca Montecchiani wrote:
> I've have that annoying messages too and I've verified that the
> source of the problem is :
> 
> > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m
> 
> the ide code check the partition-table twice, but the first
> time without the ide-disk module and so the error...

That would make sense. The drive is attached to the null driver at
the point something tried to read the partition table initially. That
errors all I/O requests since they are meaningless.

I guess we shouldnt be partition probing those devices. I'll take a
look