Don't check if a drive is a tape drive unless needed

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Feb 25 14:18:01 UTC 2006


On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:09 am, Garrett Kajmowicz wrote:
> Also, is the code for checking if something is a CDROM or a tape drive
> still important?

I don't think I've ever heard of a partitioned CD, and I'm not sure what 
partitioning a tape drive would mean.

> The comments in the code note that running fdisk -l on an 
> audio cdrom drive could cause it to crash.  Event if it still occurs, do we
> really care?

Not really, no.

> -     Garrett

Rob
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