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Bug#61861: DAC960: Assertion 'partition->name' failed.



On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:09:01PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > Kernel from boot floppy didn't found more than /dev/rd/c0d0p7 partition.
> > I've made ..p8-p10 partitions so cfdisk and fdisk show them, but
> > the /proc/partitions file shows to ..p7 only.
> 
> The DAC960 driver only supports 8 partitions per logical drive.
> See linux/Documentation/README.DAC960 for all the gory details.
> 
> Perhaps we need some sort of warning in the boot floppies that
> this is the case.

I think this bug should be forwarded to cfdisk package.
cfdisk didn't alert me, that DAC960 can't handle more than 8 partition.

Thanks,

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Piotr Roszatycki, Specjalista SD, InterNetia
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