Re: Problem in detecting RAID device!!

[Veerapuram Varadhan]

> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:12:07PM +0530, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
>> > It will be included in the next release.
>>
>> Any tentative dates?
>
> I can do it pretty quickly if there's any hurry... is there
> a special reason you want it up there, other than your own
> personal convenience?
>

Actually, we have to release our distribution shortly.  When we were doing
the testing we found this problem.  Moreover, my partitioning tool (a
frontend to libparted.) needs to be ported to 1.6.x and i am currently
doing this port.  So, if we could get a new release, we can update our
distribution also.

> Otherwise: rough guess: pre-release tommorrow, and final release
> in a week or two.
>
Thats cool.

>> BTW, when i am porting my program to parted 1.6.x, i find
>> PED_PARTITION_PRIMARY has been removed from the PedPartitionType enum.
>>  What would i do to check whether a partition is a primary partition
>> or not?
>
> Check if it's extended or logical.  If it's neither, then it's primary.
>
Currently i am doing like this only.  Anyway, thanx.

> Cheers,
> Andrew

Cheers,

V. Varadhan.