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+package partition_table_empty;
+
+#- this is a mainly dummy partition table. If we find it's empty, we just call -
+#- zero_MBR which will take care of bless'ing us to the partition table type best
+#- suited
+
+
+use diagnostics;
+use strict;
+use vars qw(@ISA);
+
+@ISA = qw(partition_table_raw);
+
+use common qw(:common :system :file);
+use partition_table_raw;
+use partition_table;
+use c;
+
+
+sub read($$) {
+    my ($hd, $sector) = @_;
+    my $tmp;
+
+    my $magic = "\0" x 256;
+
+    local *F; partition_table_raw::openit($hd, *F) or die "failed to open device";
+    c::lseek_sector(fileno(F), $sector, 0) or die "reading of partition in sector $sector failed";
+
+    #- check magic number
+    sysread F, $tmp, length $magic or die "error reading magic number";
+    $tmp eq $magic or die "bad magic number";
+
+    partition_table_raw::zero_MBR($hd);
+
+    $hd->{primary}{raw};
+}
+
+1;