1 A short history of pdisk 2 ------------------------ 3 11/1996 - Spent a week to create a minimal partitioner 4 that reads maps, initializes maps, can add and delete partitions. 5 Released as version 0.1 to MkLinux team 6 7 12/1996 - Spent three weeks adding more commands, writing 8 documentation, fixing bugs and making it prettier. 9 Released version 0.2 to Gilbert 10 Fixed a few more bugs. 11 Released as version 0.3 12 13 01/1997 - Spent two weeks creating MacOS version and fixing 14 a few more bugs. 15 Released as version 0.4 16 17 03/1997 - Spent an evening adding device driver deletion 18 and a couple of flags to private version. 19 20 07/1997 - Some one else ported it to Rhapsody. 21 Spent a couple of weeks adding variable block 22 size support to Rhapsody version. 23 Took the time to stop using rich man's source code control 24 (multiple copies) in linux/mac and put sources under RCS. 25 Folded linux/mac version changes into Rhapsody and 26 brought some of the Rhapsody changes into linux/mac 27 28 09/1997 - Fixed bugs in MacOS version of variable block size. 29 Added new dump routines. 30 Added case-insensitive string matching. 31 Released one copy of version 0.5a3 source internally. 32 33 10/1997 - Wrote MacOS documentation 34 Minor fixes 35 36 11/1997 - A few more fixes 37 Released as version 0.5 38 39 12/1997 - Integrated new media abstraction 40 (includes support for ATA and ATAPI on MacOS) 41 42 01/1998 - Added media iterators (to fix grunge in dump.c) 43 Added os_reload_media (to get rid of ioctl's in write_partition_map) 44 Added rename partition command ('n' in edit mode) 45 Added /dev/hd? and /dev/scd? to MkLinux list all disks 46 Added 68k target to CW project 47 48 02/1998 - Released version 0.6 49 Added support for ATA/IDE disks without LBA capability 50 Fixed bug - create partition with unmodified size failed 51 Added support for new (DR3) MkLinux names - show MkLinux 52 name when displaying under another name and allow the 53 MkLinux name to be used on input. 54 Released version 0.7 55 56 02-04/2000 - Clean up sources - fix naming, delete old email addresses 57 Added support for display of Mac volume names 58 Added cvt_pt target (for LinuxPPC team) 59 Fix block 0 display to show logical offset of drivers 60 Require confimation of quit without write 61 Fix iteration to not complain about missing devices 62 Warn when creating/writing a map with more than 15 entries 63 Make initial window larger in Mac version 64 Fix ATA support to scan buses correctly 65 Fix linux names (in MacOS) to work right when many devices 66 Change so WORM devices are considered 'CDs' 67 68 05/2000 - Released version 0.8 69
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