From: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
To: dmitrik@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: usb-storage@one-eyed-alien.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
stern@rowland.harvard.edu, mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net,
patmans@us.ibm.com, james.bottomley@steeleye.com,
ronald@kuetemeier.com, idan@idanso.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH] fix Sony USB mass storage - pass larger receive buffer
Date: 13 Nov 2003 17:16:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068769001.2851.2.camel@patrh9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1068767483.3fb418fb45b65@webmail.netregistry.net>
> > > > Anybody able to clue me in quickly as to why classifying a
> device as
> > > > writable or not, rather than a disc, can ever be meaningful?
> > >
> > > The notion makes sense for tape drives as well.
> >
> > Re write-protect, personally I know only of discs that have
> > write-protect tabs.
>
> Memory sticks have write-protect switches on them.
Ouch again I feel confused sorry.
The memory stick is like a disc, yes? We insert the stick into a slot,
yes? The slot does not itself have a switch - only the stick has a
switch. We cannot speak of the slot being write-protected, we can only
speak of the stick being write-protected, yes?
Therefore, with a memory stick as with a classic "1.44MB" floppy, we say
the "disc" has a write-protect tab but the "drive" does not?
Pat LaVarre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-12 23:50 [PATCH] fix Sony USB mass storage - pass larger receive buffer Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-13 0:09 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-13 0:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-13 0:44 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-13 1:56 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-13 14:54 ` [usb-storage] " Alan Stern
2003-11-13 16:21 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 17:09 ` Alan Stern
2003-11-13 17:24 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 18:04 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-13 18:15 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 18:22 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 18:26 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 18:37 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 19:13 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-13 19:30 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 22:03 ` Alan Stern
2003-11-13 23:40 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13 23:51 ` Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-14 0:16 ` Pat LaVarre [this message]
2003-11-14 1:04 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-14 1:10 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 1:13 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-13 22:01 ` Alan Stern
2003-11-13 23:37 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 0:24 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-14 1:54 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 2:08 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-14 2:24 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-17 21:38 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-17 22:00 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-17 23:36 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 1:03 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-13 23:44 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 0:13 ` Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-14 0:55 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 1:13 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-14 2:02 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 2:10 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 2:19 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-14 2:38 ` [usb-storage] mode sense blacklist how Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 2:44 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-14 17:27 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 17:57 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 3:11 ` Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-14 19:41 ` Pat LaVarre
[not found] ` <20031114153607.A7207@beaverton.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <20031116121039.A13224@beaverton.ibm.com>
2003-11-17 20:14 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-19 12:55 ` Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-19 16:34 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-19 17:02 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-19 23:34 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-11-20 16:32 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-21 1:17 ` SG_IO ioctl (was: mode sense blacklist how) Douglas Gilbert
2003-11-21 3:18 ` Willem Riede
2003-11-21 20:51 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-28 17:07 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-28 17:14 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-28 17:31 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-28 17:09 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-21 21:29 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-20 14:06 ` [usb-storage] mode sense blacklist how Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-20 15:57 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 1:06 ` [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH] fix Sony USB mass storage - pass larger receive buffer Matthew Dharm
2003-11-14 16:14 ` Alan Stern
2003-11-14 17:29 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-14 17:50 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-14 2:02 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-11-14 21:45 ` [usb-storage] " Pat LaVarre
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2003-11-14 2:25 Andries.Brouwer
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