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Re: SCSI scanner project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Stailey)
Fri Nov 10 00:45:09 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 15:38:08 -0500
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@owl.dol-esa.gov>
To: drew@poohsticks.org
CC: johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
kstailey@owl.dol-esa.gov
In-reply-to: <199511091756.KAA00063@chopper.poohsticks.org> (message from Drew
Eckhardt on Thu, 09 Nov 1995 10:56:46 -0700)
> Many of the slow (Sequential access rewind, retension, file space
> forward and reverse; direct access format) SCSI commands have an
> IMMEDIATE bit, where if set the device returns COMMAND COMPLETE
> real soon.
Ahh, so the behavior is not that aberrant after all. It just violates
the spec in that there is no IMMEDIATE bit for the OBJECT_POSITION
0x31 and START_SCAN 0x1b commands. At least not according to _The
SCSI Bus and IDE Interface_ by Friedhelm Schmidt ISBN 0-201-42284-0.
Thanks,
~Ken
