Bug#487452: installation-report: d-i lenny beta 2 nslu2 armel
On Sunday 22 June 2008, root wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> /etc/fstab ended up with an /media/floppy mountpoint for /dev/sda.
> Which was weird, because /dev/sda is a (very cheap) USB ide laptop disk
> enclosure; /dev/sda1 is the root filesystem. Seems to happen because
> ID_TYPE is reported as floppy:
>
> root@slug:/etc/ssl/certs>udevinfo -q env -p /block/sda
> ID_VENDOR=Myson_Century,_Inc.
> ID_MODEL=USB_Mass_Storage_Device
> ID_REVISION=b008
> ID_SERIAL=Myson_Century,_Inc._USB_Mass_Storage_Device_100
> ID_SERIAL_SHORT=100
> ID_TYPE=floppy
> ID_BUS=usb
> ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:01.2-usb-0:1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
>
> I don't know if this is a kernel or a hardware bug. I do wonder if d-i
> should trust the ID_TYPE at all.
We don't, at least not entirely. See list-devices which has a few
exceptions. Maybe another one should be added?
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