[7872] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Devices not supporting read-6....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Jacob)
Fri Jan 21 13:58:39 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:03:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
phoenix@thesindicate.com
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Better support it. I believe that the newer ATAPI and RBC devices are all
using 10 byte commands.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As far as I know, "read-6" is a very mandatory command. However
> there is a device, the
>
> {"TOSHIBA","DVD-RAM SD-W1101","*", BLIST_GHOST},
>
> which doesn't implement it.
>
> What do we do?
>
> - Blacklist it as "doesn't support read-6" and implement
> stuff to prevent read-6 if that flag is set?
>
> - Ignore the issue, and just let people with this hardware
> live with a non-working drive?
>
> Is there maybe already something implemented? Anybody the "owner" of
> that piece of code?
>
> I seem to own the "blist_ghost" stuff, so it's going to be listed
> there, but then the system runs into not-working read-6 commands.
>
> Roger.
>
> P.S. (I'm not on linux-scsi, and I'm on vacation starting saturday).
> I had been hoping it would've been as easy as listing the drive as
> a 'blist_ghost' thing, but now things are more complicated...
>
>
> --
> ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2137555 **
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