Re: [PATCH] Don't look for a partition map on a floppy

[Robert Mabee]

> Minix floppies are partitioned.
Facts are such inconvenient things.

I'm still looking for a way to iterate through partitions without incurring
the floppy timeout, something like this:
  for dev in *; do
    if ! regexp "\(fd[0-9]\)" $dev; then
      for part in ($dev,*); do

I can see how to change the *-expansion logic so * wouldn't read partmaps
(since it only matches devices anyway) and so (hd0,*) would only access hd0.