A short history of pdisk ------------------------ 11/1996 - Spent a week to create a minimal partitioner that reads maps, initializes maps, can add and delete partitions. Released as version 0.1 to MkLinux team 12/1996 - Spent three weeks adding more commands, writing documentation, fixing bugs and making it prettier. Released version 0.2 to Gilbert Fixed a few more bugs. Released as version 0.3 01/1997 - Spent two weeks creating MacOS version and fixing a few more bugs. Released as version 0.4 03/1997 - Spent an evening adding device driver deletion and a couple of flags to private version. 07/1997 - Some one else ported it to Rhapsody. Spent a couple of weeks adding variable block size support to Rhapsody version. Took the time to stop using rich man's source code control (multiple copies) in linux/mac and put sources under RCS. Folded linux/mac version changes into Rhapsody and brought some of the Rhapsody changes into linux/mac 09/1997 - Fixed bugs in MacOS version of variable block size. Added new dump routines. Added case-insensitive string matching. Released one copy of version 0.5a3 source internally. 10/1997 - Wrote MacOS documentation Minor fixes 11/1997 - A few more fixes Released as version 0.5 12/1997 - Integrated new media abstraction (includes support for ATA and ATAPI on MacOS) 01/1998 - Added media iterators (to fix grunge in dump.c) Added os_reload_media (to get rid of ioctl's in write_partition_map) Added rename partition command ('n' in edit mode) Added /dev/hd? and /dev/scd? to MkLinux list all disks Added 68k target to CW project 02/1998 - Released version 0.6 Added support for ATA/IDE disks without LBA capability Fixed bug - create partition with unmodified size failed Added support for new (DR3) MkLinux names - show MkLinux name when displaying under another name and allow the MkLinux name to be used on input. Released version 0.7 02-04/2000 - Clean up sources - fix naming, delete old email addresses Added support for display of Mac volume names Added cvt_pt target (for LinuxPPC team) Fix block 0 display to show logical offset of drivers Require confimation of quit without write Fix iteration to not complain about missing devices Warn when creating/writing a map with more than 15 entries Make initial window larger in Mac version Fix ATA support to scan buses correctly Fix linux names (in MacOS) to work right when many devices Change so WORM devices are considered 'CDs' 05/2000 - Released version 0.8 |