Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I found to my surprise that the aacraid driver does not support VPD
> pages at all. I'm somewhat used to modern SCSI HBAs export SCSI-2 disks,
> but not supporting VPD pages at all is really a bit .. hmm .. SCSI-1-ish.
> And it makes it really impossible to assign a persistent device ID to
> those drives.
> 
[ .. ]
> 
> Anyway, I don't think that it should be too hard to add proper VPD page
> support (ie page 0x83), but for that one would have some documentation
> how to ask the controller for it. I'll leave that to you :-)
> You can use the page 0x80 support as a template.
> 
And here is even the patch, based on scsi-misc.
Might help on reviewing.

Cheers,

Hannes
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