[Cooker] Adding device types to diskdrake

[Joshua Kugler]

I've been looking around in the code for Diskdrake (and the associated 
libraries) and I had a question before I really mess things up.  Where would 
I go looking to add devices to the list of devices that diskdrake detects?

I have two Coraid Etherdrive units hooked up to a Mandrake system, and would 
like to be able to use Diskdrake to manage them, add them to RAID, LVM, etc.  

The units are listed in /dev/etherd and the have the format ex.ypz, where x is 
the shelf number, y is the lblade number (logical blade on the unit) and z is 
the partition number, if the blades are partitioned.  I usually format/mount 
the whole device:

mount /dev/etherd/e0.0 /mnt/etherdrive

Tips or suggestions to get me started?

On another topic: I just discovered today that the maximum size for a drive 
added to a Linux md device is 2TB, which stinks since I have my two 
Etherdrive units configured as 5.1TB RAID5 arrays and I wanted to RAID1 them 
together. :)

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