F13 - goodnews and bad news

[Tim]

On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 12:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> What I find hopelessly geeky is when I have more
> than one physical disk in the system. I get these
> extra screens where it shows me stuff like the
> model number and serial number of the disks and
> asks me to choose which ones to continue the
> partitioning process with. The idea that I would
> have my serial numbers memorized and know how to
> pick relevant disks is absurd. The screens should
> start with all disks selected and let me exclude
> some if I do actually recognize serial numbers. (Or
> just get rid of those screens completely and
> default to always including all the disks).

Very dangerous, much better to deselect all discs, and make the user
figure out which is the right disc to use.  Else they stand a very good
chance of wiping out something they needed to keep.

Providing the disc info does make it possible for you to look in the box
and identify which is the drive you've just inserted, and pick the same
one from the configuration screen.  Especially so when someone puts in
two or more almost identical drives.

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