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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
	thomas schorpp <t.schorpp@gmx.de>,
	USB Storage list <usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net>,
	Timothy Thelin <Timothy.Thelin@wdc.com>,
	Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [usb-storage] [Merging ATA passthru] on integrating SMART/ATA-Security in usb-storage driver
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:05:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131401153.3333.6.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0511071552360.5165-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:59 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > That is, is usb-storage forcing scsi-2 when the device tells us it is
> > scsi-3 compliant, or is the hardware reporting devices are scsi-2, yet
> > requiring non-LUN value in cdb[1]?
> 
> I think we may have both.  However I don't know how this Cypress chip
> reports itself.  A system log showing the INQUIRY data would be very
> helpful.

We were told in prior emails that it actually reports a level of zero
(i.e. no compliance with any SCSI standard).  My original proposal was
just not to modify the CDB[1] for this case if we could get the INQUIRY
passed through unmangled.

> It's quite possible that usb-storage no longer needs to force the 
> scsi-level to 2.  No one has recently tested what would happen without 
> it.  Matt probably has the best selection of devices for testing...
> 
> There is one problem we have with devices that report themselves as SCSI-3 
> or SCSI-4 but hang when they receive a REPORT LUNS command.  That's easily 
> handled by making usb-storage set the NOREPORTLUN flag.  Maybe that's all 
> we need to do.

If you could try this out, I'd be grateful.

Thanks,

James



  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04 18:30 [usb-storage] [Merging ATA passthru] on integrating SMART/ATA-Security in usb-storage driver Timothy Thelin
2005-11-04 18:58 ` James Bottomley
2005-11-04 20:30   ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-04 20:49     ` James Bottomley
2005-11-05 23:55       ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-06  0:49         ` James Bottomley
2005-11-06  3:38           ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-06 21:58           ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-06 22:28             ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-06 23:52               ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-11-07 16:59                 ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-07 17:05                 ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-07 17:24                   ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-11-07 17:46                     ` Alan Stern
2005-11-07 18:06                       ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-07 19:33                         ` Alan Stern
2005-11-07 20:07                           ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-07 17:53                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-07 17:54                     ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-07 18:57                       ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-11-07 19:53                         ` Alan Stern
2005-11-07 20:47                           ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-11-07 20:59                             ` Alan Stern
2005-11-07 22:05                               ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-11-08 17:09                                 ` Alan Stern
2005-11-08 23:05                                   ` Mike Anderson
2005-11-09 15:35                                     ` Alan Stern
2005-12-01 11:35                                 ` [PATCH] writable scsi_level [was: [Merging ATA passthru] on integrating SMART/ATA-Security in usb-storage driver] Douglas Gilbert
2005-11-08 13:51                             ` [usb-storage] [Merging ATA passthru] on integratingSMART/ATA-Security in usb-storage driver Pat LaVarre
2005-11-06 23:15             ` [usb-storage] [Merging ATA passthru] on integrating SMART/ATA-Security " James Bottomley
2005-11-07 18:14         ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-11-04 23:56     ` Andries Brouwer
2005-11-04 23:46 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-11-05 16:20   ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-05 18:01     ` [usb-storage] [Merging ATA passthru] on integratingSMART/ATA-Security " Pat LaVarre
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-08 19:50 [usb-storage] [Merging ATA passthru] on integrating SMART/ATA-Security " Timothy Thelin
2005-11-09  9:04 ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-09  9:45   ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-09 10:05     ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-09 13:21     ` Mark Lord
2005-11-09 14:05       ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-07 20:18 Timothy Thelin
2005-11-07 17:51 Timothy Thelin
2005-11-02 22:18 Timothy Thelin
2005-11-02 23:22 ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-02 23:45 ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-04  4:08   ` James Bottomley
2005-11-04 17:28     ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-04 18:33       ` James Bottomley
2005-11-04 20:30         ` Matthew Dharm
2005-11-04 20:53           ` James Bottomley
2005-11-02 20:33 Timothy Thelin
2005-11-02 21:55 ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-02 14:08 thomas schorpp
2005-11-02 16:05 ` [usb-storage] " Alan Stern
2005-11-02 19:12   ` thomas schorpp
2005-11-02 19:26     ` Alan Stern
2005-11-02 20:41       ` thomas schorpp

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