[Orca-dev] Re: revised version of orcallator

[Sean O'Neill]

At 12:27 PM 1/3/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>alegrand at wallace.com wrote:
> >
> > Blair,
> >         I have not had time to figure out how to use sub version
> > yet. (I can't access it through our corporate firewall).  There
> > was an error in the raw disk code that matches short names to long
> > names.  When it was seaching for the disk slice info.  If two disks
> > sd2 and sd24  existed  the code matched sd2 to  sd24.  It has not
> > shown up before because it is not a real common error.
> >
> > Most system start at sd0 hence it would never occur and for those
> > systems that do not have internal disks most do not have enough
> > disks to trigger the error.
> >
> > Anyway the attached version of orcallator  fixes the problem.
> >
> >  <<orcallator.se-1.36b2.txt>>
> >
> > Please note that Renaat needed to replace the diskinfo.se  module in the SE
> > 3.3 toolkit to get the RAW_DISK code to work (prior to that it core 
> dumped.)
> >
> >  <<diskinfo.se>>
>
>[cc'ing orca-dev just so they're in the loop].
>
>Thanks Alan,
>
>I've applied your new orcallator.se commit to the Orca tree in revision
>176, creating orcallator.se 1.37.
>
>http://www.orcaware.com/pipermail/orca-checkins/2002-December/000088.html
>
>Can you give me a quick write up of when the modified diskinfo.se should
>be applied to somebody's tree?  It looks as if only people with certain
>hardware should apply the patch.  I'll put this file into the Orca patches
>directory when I get a short description.
>
>Also, which versions of SE is this new diskinfo.se applicable for?

A suggestion ... don't patch the diskinfo.se file directly.  If Rich 
changes his stuff and your upgrade SE, your modifications are gone.

I have some modifications for Orca which I should finish shortly which 
includes a new SE include directory inside the Orca directory structure 
which is include before the real SE include files.


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Sean O'Neill