Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!prle!prles2!cst!meulenbr From: meulenbr@cst.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: minix cannot access the last sector of an odd-sized partition Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 90 07:26:37 GMT Sender: news@prles2.prl.philips.nl Lines: 17 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)