Re: Problem in detecting RAID device!!

[Veerapuram Varadhan]

> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:54:27PM +0530, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
>> > The relevant function is _probe_proc_partitions() inside linux.c.
>>
>> with the following lines in the _probe_proc_partitions(), i am able to
>> get the device listed in parted (ped_device_get_next() gives
>> ped_device corresponding to the RAID device).
>>
>>     char* rd_str = NULL;
>>
>>     // existing code...
>>
>>     rd_str = strstr (part_name, "rd/");
>>     if (rd_str)
>>     {
>>         if (strlen (rd_str+3) != 4)
>>             continue;
>>     }
>>     else if (isdigit (part_name [strlen (part_name) - 1]))
>>     // existing code
>
> This doesn't generalize to handle rd/c12d54, for example.
>
Ofcourse yes, i did this just to check *MY DEVICE* ;)

>> I dont know whether the above could be a better solution, anyway, any
>> other solution is highly appreciated.
>
> I like my solution better.
>
So am I :), since, the solution is generalized to handle all of the
rd/cxdx patterns.

> Anyway, can you please tell me if my solution fixed your problem
> also?
>

Yep, it did.  It is now working fine.  Can you patch it with original
source, so that i can download it directly?

> Thanks,
> Andrew

Thanks and regards,

V. Varadhan.