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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-08-09 09:36 -------
Hmm, you're right...
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Currently there are places in installer where the user has to select a hard
drive for some operation (e.g. installing the bootloader).
However, the selection is ony possible by device node filenames (like /dev/hda)
- one cannot always be sure what drive does a particular node correspond to.
I propose that in such places not only the device node filename be shown, but
also a description of the device's model, like in this example:
/dev/hda: SAMSUNG SV2042H
The information can be extracted from /proc/ide/hdX/model (substitute [a-d] for
X of course). I don't know about SCSI, though...
The most obvious places where this would be used are partitioning phase (the
drive tabs at the top of the disks scheme), and bootloader installation (where
you select the drive where the bootloader would be installed).
In the partitions editor I would imagine that each tab gets a bit higher to
contain the second line of text: in addition to device name (e.g. hda) it would
contain the model string in the second row below. Of course, the second row
would use a smaller font since the string would be much longer than device name.
For assessing typical sizes of Hard driver model strings, here are some samples
extracted from my machines, grouped by vendor:
Samsung:
SAMSUNG SV2042H
SAMSUNG SV4002H
Western Digital:
WDC WD43AA
WDC WD150EB-00BHF0
Seagate:
ST3120023A
In bootloader installation, the drive for bootloader is selected from a
drop-down, so I propose that instead of plain device name, the model string be
simply appended there with concatenation.
