ef hardDriveDict():
    import parted

    dict = driveDict("disk")

    # this is kind of ugly, but it's much easier to do this from python
    for (dev, descr) in dict.items():
        # the only raid devs like this are ide, so only worry about them
        if not dev.startswith("hd"):
            continue
        ret = _isys.hasIdeRaidMagic(dev)
        if ret is None:
            continue
        found = 0
        try:
            devName = "/tmp/%s" % dev
            makeDevInode(dev, devName)

            # ugh, this is basically copy&paste of other anaconda code, but
            # it kind of needs to be here and isys should stay isolated
            peddev = parted.PedDevice.get(devName)
            disk = parted.PedDisk.new(peddev)
            part = disk.next_partition()
            while part:
                if (part.fs_type and
                    part.fs_type.name in ("FAT", "fat16", "fat32",
                                          "ntfs", "hpfs")):
                    # this disk has a fat partition on it, we have to use
                    # it as an ataraid device
                    found = 1
                part = disk.next_partition(part)
            del disk
            del peddev

            os.unlink(devName)
        except Exception, e:
            print e
            # what can I really do here?
            pass

        if found == 1:
            log("%s has a %s raid signature and windows parts" %(dev, ret))
            del dict[dev]
        else:
            log("%s has a %s raid signature but no windows parts" %(dev, ret))
        
    return driveDict("disk")