From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:12:27 +0000 Subject: Re: udev naming for PATA drives Message-Id: <46D562AB.3060502@suse.de> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Aug 29 2007 07:05, Kay Sievers wrote: >>> And I also wonder why the ID_MODEL gets truncated by one >>> character when copies to ID_SERIAL_SHORT. (The 'A' of MK2003GA is missi= ng.) >> They are unfortunately truncated to 15 chars, which should be 16, yes.=20 >> >> And if you read the native ATA string it has an additional 'H' too, >> which does not survive the SCSI layer. :) >=20 > Can't the SCSI layer be enhanced? If the (real SCSI) hardware still only = does > 16, well, let it be. Especially bad is that vendor is always "ATA" with l= ibata > and the real vendor + model name get squeezed into model name or so. >=20 Nope. Vendor name is 8 bytes, Model name 16 bytes. Sadly as there are no vendor name in the IDE IDENTIFY command, the vendor name is fixed to 'ATA'. That leaves us with 16 bytes of model information. No way of increasing that. Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel