is it possible to tell the kernel to not do partition scanning on a particular drive ? i'm faced with a sata disk at the moment which has a few bad blocks at the start of the drive. when the kernel tries to do a partition scan on the device, it fails with ata timeouts/resets. accessing the rest of the disk seems to be ok. so i'd like to boot up and dd the rest of the disk before junking it (the drive is just 1 big partition, so the table is irrelevant ... i can recover most data on it otherwise). isnt there some kernel parameter where i could do: sdc=no-partition-scanning or something for example, when a drive boots up, the kernel shows something like: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 because it scanned the MSDOS partition table at the start of the drive and found it to contain these three things. this scan is what i need to skip. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
