Re: partition type to autodetect raid

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

> The only place I would even imagine this would be possible would be in
> the mode pages, but my recollection of the SCSI standard says that all
> of these modes pages are read only. :(

IIRC there are some writable fields in some drives to allow you to set
caching/writeback behaviour, for example, but even then they are
definitely not persisitent.  There's nowhere to store a permanent
data-type marker.

--Stephen