Hi Doug, and here's now the follow-up to my patchset 'Add EVPD pages to sysfs'; with this small tweak sg_inq can read the EVPD dumps from sysfs without any I/O. So I guess we're good to go with just having the raw data for the EVPD pages in sysfs, James. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)