From: Timothy J M. <tm...@ob...> - 2012-04-03 22:09:09
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Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote on 04/03/2012 05:56:54 PM: > Personally, I'd never trust a script to automatically format a disk > just because it is inserted in a certain carrier. Thank you for that. That may be a perfectly logical option: but it's not what I've chosen. (This is a solution that has been in production for 6 or more years, and in the direct hands of a couple dozen clients. Number of initializations: *thousands*. Number of issues: ZERO.) > Maybe something > like making a small permanent partition with a label or UUID would > let you detect it and figure out the base device if you really have > to format different/larger partition on it in a script. The PCI bus > address shouldn't change unless you move controller cards around, though. Once again, until Seagate et. al. sends them that way from the factory, NOTHING that depends on the *contents* of the drive is going to help me. Once the drive is initialized by the script, this might work great. But because blank drives *WILL* be put into this system, I don't have much of a choice. To be clear: 1) Trained monkey takes brand new drive out of the box 2) Trained monkey installs it into the tray 3) Trained monkey clicks a button and the drive magically becomes usable. There's no way the monkey is gonna get (or want, or even *accept*) console access, so "figure out where that brand new drive is this time..." is not an option. I remember the bitter discussions regarding udev and I wondered what the big deal was. I now know... :( Tim Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tm...@ob... 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796 |