Re: Bug

[K . G .]

> > > trying to partition a DVD-RAM by calling "parted /dev/scd1" resulted in 
> > > the following message.
> > > ---
> > > You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> > > address@hidden containing the version (1.6.3), and the following 
> > > message:
> > > 
> > > The sector size on /dev/scd1 is 2048 bytes.  Parted is known not to work
> > > properly with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes
> > 
> > 
> > Did you mean to type "parted /dev/scd" ?
> 
> No, i don't think so. The /dev/scdx are the devices used for scsi cdrom
> devices and such, and they are numbered as discovered (scd0, scd1, ...).
> 
> As thus, i am not sure if it is possible to partition them easily this
> way, not sure though, since dvd-ram should be handled as storage
> devices, not as cdroms.

You don't have devices representing partitions on /dev/scdx under Linux (I mean 
/dev/hda is a
device and /dev/hda1 is the first partition on it, but /dev/scd1 is the device 
and there's no way
to address the first partition on it). So even if you succed in writing a 
partition table on it,
you'll have no way to mount it !

Cheers,
Guillaume.