> > > One major issue for me is that you can use, and mount both the
> > > /dev/ataraid/d0 devices, and the /dev/hd devices. This makes for lots
> > > of fun in the Red Hat installer, and Cerberus.
> >
> > Stupidity management for the superuser is a user space issue in Unix
> > systems. If the RH installer does let you do stupid things, please
> > bugzilla it.
>
> Actually I was looking at what it would take to add support for
> ataraid in the RH installer. Is there some simple way to determine that
> a device is a part of an ataraid array? Parsing dmesg makes for some
> really ugly and easily broken code.
The controller IIRC writes this information on the disk. I'm pretty sure
it's toward the end of the disk though.
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