Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:58:23 -0400 | From | William Thompson <> | Subject | Re: PDC20267 + RAID can't find raid device |
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> > > One major issue for me is that you can use, and mount both the > > > /dev/ataraid/d0 devices, and the /dev/hd devices. This makes for lots > > > of fun in the Red Hat installer, and Cerberus. > > > > Stupidity management for the superuser is a user space issue in Unix > > systems. If the RH installer does let you do stupid things, please > > bugzilla it. > > Actually I was looking at what it would take to add support for > ataraid in the RH installer. Is there some simple way to determine that > a device is a part of an ataraid array? Parsing dmesg makes for some > really ugly and easily broken code.
The controller IIRC writes this information on the disk. I'm pretty sure it's toward the end of the disk though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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