[8715] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: question on short transfers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Dharm)
Tue Apr 25 20:18:03 2000
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:14:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: sjbuller@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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Well, if this is the case, then I guess what we have to do is fully
implement this feature, instead of leaving it half-cooked.
Matt Dharm
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 sjbuller@us.ibm.com wrote:
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> Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> >Personally, I think underflow is really an error condition, and should
> >cause an auto-REQUEST_SENSE and sense data to be returned along with
> >CHECK_CONDITION or some other message.
> >
> >Really, in the case of an underflow, we've most likely got some type of
> >media problem. And it's very likely that even the part we _think_ got
> >read/written correctly didn't actually.
> >
> >So I think we should rip this out.
> >
> >Matt Dharm
>
> It is standard practice in variable block tape applications to always
> issue a read for max block size. 99.999% of the reads result in a
> check_condition for requested size != actual. Its not a media problem.
>
> -steve
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