On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:24:55AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > The reason I'm not elaborating beyond what I already said was that there > was not much to say. I'm trying to write something that will perform > some operation on all HARD DISKS in the system, ignoring non-mechanical > storage devices. There is something else I may want to do that I will do > only on DoKs.
Non-mechanical... I assume that means no network block devices, no logical volumes, device mapper snapshots, or anything else that is not a JBOD. Correct? how about removable? if yes, are DOKs included? if no, what about hot-pluggable SCSI disks? > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:0:0:0]# cat vendor ; cat model > >>>>ATA > So a SCSI device is saying "ATA"..... In the vendor field, yes. > Do you feel much better for knowing? Yeah, it tells me the requirements are ill specified. See clarifying questions above. > IF the kernel knows it, I may export it via sysfs. Frankly, I have my > doubts it can tell between a disk on key and a USB IDE interface, but I > may be wrong. I'd like to understand exactly what information the kernel is supposed to know. What is your criteria for including some devices and excluding others from your search? Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
