* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-13 10:02]: > * Michael Cardenas > > | Great! Where should I look? Is it part of anna? > > No, there is something in the attic of tools/ddetect
There are, at least, two methods for hard drive detection. * with parted * with discover For parted, you can look at the source of partprobe parted-1.6.3/partprobe/partprobe.c and in autopartkit debian-installer/tools/autopartkit/autopartkit.c For libdiscover, you can look here : discover-1.5/lib/disk.c or in http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/tools/ddetect/Attic/diskdetect.c Discover parse /proc/* entry. parted use ioctl to find disks. I don't know what is the best tool, and if they work fine on others archs, and on Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian/xBSD. And last thing, next version of discover (discover2) will use better approach to these problems : there will be a generic api and different functions for each OS. Yan can find some old devel sources at : http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/releases/ and release status at : http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/status/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
