output for parted 1.8.8 (or older releases)

[Toomas Tamm]

On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 14:06 +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote:

> Okay. That is definitely odd now. The other output was produced by a 2.6.32 
> kernel on SuSE 11SP1. I'm unsure whether to write a small check if $flags 
> contains rogue 'colon-space-colon-space' sequences or simply ignore the 
> matter.

I would agree with Thomas Lange that it would be very odd for someone to
combine a not-yet-released version of FAI with a lenny or earlier
nfsroot. Can we just call it unsupported?

> But apart from that: THAT'S AN IDE MACHINE! Great! Can you please provide me 
> with the output of /proc/ide/*/media? (Another nearly obsolete piece of 
> cidenow. Even if I force a machine to have IDE disks they're still presented 
> as SCSI devices.)

# ls -l /proc/ide
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 2014-06-12 15:27 drivers
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 2014-06-12 15:27 hda -> ide0/hda
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 2014-06-12 15:27 hdc -> ide1/hdc
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root 0 2014-06-12 15:27 ide0
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root 0 2014-06-12 15:27 ide1

# ls -l /proc/ide/*/media
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2014-06-12 15:28 /proc/ide/hda/media
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2014-06-12 15:28 /proc/ide/hdc/media

# cat /proc/ide/*/media
disk
cdrom

The other machine, which has no CDROM, but does have also SATA disks,
has just "disk" for the single IDE disk in /proc/ide/hda .

PS I shall send you a bunch of parted outputs via PM soon.

Toomas