diff -urN qtparted-0.4.5.orig/src/qp_devlist.cpp qtparted-0.4.5/src/qp_devlist.cpp

--- qtparted-0.4.5.orig/src/qp_devlist.cpp	2005-08-10 14:05:37 +0300

+++ qtparted-0.4.5/src/qp_devlist.cpp	2007-07-23 18:34:38 +0300

@@ -239,6 +239,26 @@

 	devlist.clear();

 }

+inline bool is_floppy(const char* d) {

+	return (d == NULL) ? FALSE : !strncmp(d, "/dev/fd", sizeof("/dev/fd")-1);

+}

+

+inline bool is_cdrom(const char* d) {

+	char s[sizeof("/proc/ide//media")+4];

+	FILE* F;

+

+	if (d == NULL) return FALSE;

+	if (!(strncmp(d, "/dev/sr", sizeof("/dev/sr")-1) && strncmp(d, "/dev/scd", sizeof("/dev/scd")-1))) return TRUE;

+	if (!strncmp(d, "/dev/hd", sizeof("/dev/hd")-1)) {

+	    snprintf(s, sizeof(s), "/proc/ide%s/media", strrchr(d, '/'));

+	    if (F=fopen(s, "r")) {

+		if (!strcmp(fgets(s, sizeof("cdrom"), F), "cdrom")) return TRUE;

+		fclose(F);

+	    }

+	}

+	return FALSE;

+}

+

 void QP_DevList::getDevices() {

 	/*---get all the device (ie /dev/sda, /dev/hda /etc /etc)---*/

 	PedDevice *dev = NULL;

@@ -247,9 +267,7 @@

 	while ((dev = ped_device_get_next(dev))) {

 		// Workaround for parted detecting CD-ROMs as harddisks

 		// FIXME remove if/when parted gets fixed

-		QString p(dev->path);

-		if(!p.startsWith("/dev/sd") && (p.contains("/dev/scd") || p.contains("/dev/sr") || access("/proc/ide/" + p.section('/', 2, 2) + "/cache", R_OK)))

-			continue;

+		if (is_cdrom(dev->path) || is_floppy(dev->path)) continue;

 		QP_Device *device = new QP_Device(_settings);