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From: Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDD Detection
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:29:41
Message-Id: 1087093753.6083.83.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDD Detection by Greg KH
1 On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 20:21, Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 05:34:52PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 15:05, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
4 > > OK, the script has been rewritten to use sysfs now. Please try it
5 > > again. Hopefully scsi detection should work now :). Currently it
6 > > should detect anything in /sys/bus/{scsi,ide}/devices. If there is
7 > > anything besides scsi and ide that needs to be detected, please let me
8 > > know.
9 >
10 > What about all block devices in /sys/block that are not scsi or ide?
11 >
12 > What exactly are you trying to do here?
13
14 Trying to detect partitionable devices (ie. hard drives). I want to
15 detect at the kernel level (ie. without depending on tools like
16 fdisk/parted) so it is more arch compatible.
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18 Nathaniel
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