On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Stephen O'Mohany wrote:
> Hi All,
> The company that I work for, American Megatrend has decided to
> support a linux driver for one of its new products an IDE controller called
> Hyperdisk. You can check it out at www.ami.com <http://www.ami.com> . We
> have created the software raid driver and the next task is to create a set
> of tools (rebuild, notification of raid status) .
> The question is, does anyone have any strong opinions as to what these
> tools should look like or do.
Most importantly, I think the driver should make all status information
available via. the proc filesystem. This allows everyone to hack up
their own monitoring tools if they want to, and it allows other commercial
software makers to easily support your device.
The tools should definitely be command-line at first. You could add
GUI / Curses interface, but command line tools are necessary for
scripting purposes (and easy step-by-step documentation in HOWTOs).
It's imperant that you can configure your device over non-X connections,
so a GUI alone won't cut it. And some of us use old terminals, so maybe
even Curses is setting the bar a little high.
Should you decide that a GUI would be worth the effort, _please_ don't
use Motif ;) I don't care about Qt vs. GTK+ (well I don't care enough
to argue about it), but Motif is the one choice that will not fit into
the desktops of _any_ GNU/Linux user.
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