Re: Partition support for FAT file system

[Frank Pagliughi <fpagliughi at mindspring dot com>]

> > This is already handled in the io/disk package. You mount /dev/diskN/M
> > for partition M of disk N and /dev/diskN/0 for the whole disk.
> > Partitioning is independent of filesystem type, so it must be done at
> > a lower level that the FATFS.
> >
> >   
> Ah, ok, thanks, Nick. I misunderstood that terminology in the IDE 
> case, mistaking it as 'N' for the controller and 'M' for the disk on 
> that controller. This makes sense.
>
> So then it's the IDE driver that should scan the partition table on 
> the physical disk and export separate mount points for each? Would 
> that be the proper way to go?
Nevermind. I found my mistake....

The name of the disk should end with a slash, like "/dev/disk0/", and 
then the lookup functionality in the disk library scans for partitions. 
I had left off the final slash and then cyg_io_lookup() was failing the 
exact match.

Thanks again for the help,
Frank