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Re: Devices not supporting read-6....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rogier Wolff)
Fri Jan 21 17:41:48 2000

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In-Reply-To: <E12BSH9-0001Ip-00@the-village.bc.nu> from Alan Cox at "Jan 21,
 2000 00:50:06 am"
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:08:53 +0100 (MET)
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
	phoenix@thesindicate.com
From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
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Alan Cox wrote:
> >    {"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?
 
> Is this ide-scsi. ATAPI does not require legacy command modes. If
> its atapi maybe ide-scsi isnt mapping right. If its real scsi then
> ask Toshiba for scsi firmware. Thats just too fundamentally screwy
> to bother with

I'm told that legacy commands are currently officially depreciated, so
we're going to see more and more of these devices.

				Roger.

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