Re: [usb-storage] [Merging ATA passthru] on integrating SMART/ATA-Security in usb-storage driver

[thomas schorpp <t.schorpp@gmx.de>]

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, thomas schorpp wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I don't think blacklisting is a good way to do this.  In principle any USB 
>>>mass storage device -- any SCSI device, in fact -- might have a 
>>>vendor-specific pass-thru needing special handling.
>>
>>no. that would be not industry best practice and uneconomical sw effort.
> 
> 
> Adding vendor-specific codes to SCSI devices isn't industry best practice?  
> I can't argue with that, but it is very common nevertheless.

not for all the cheap noname consumer stuff around. maybe in your scsi-320 server 
world i cant afford.

> 
> Is it an uneconomical software effort?  Ridiculous -- it's not software at 
> all, it's part of the firmware.

i thought were speaking of OS drivers here?

> 
> 
>>remember this devices are mainly "designed for windows" and WHQL certification 
>>is expensive for every single driver. and ms has only one driver for all usb storage 
>>right now, all boxes and sticks i had here use it.
> 
> 
> I think you have a very limited view of how devices are "designed".  
> Besides, I specifically said I was talking about _all_ SCSI devices, not 
> just USB ones.
> 

yes, for the second sentence, this is made clear now.

> 
>>> It doesn't have to be 
>>>correlated with the vendor, the product, the SCSI level, the transport, or 
>>>anything else.
>>
>>yes. the sheet for design recommended cypress chips state all ATACB and ATA-Security.
>>i would be make no sense to implement different behaviuors in chips for the same purpose.
> 
> 
> That's what Cypress does, sure.  But who says that other vendors have to 
> copy Cypress?  For the most part they don't.  Neither does T10.

they dont copy cypress, they want to reduce costs, processes and resulting 
"standards" should be compatible, therefore.

> 
> As for whether it makes no sense -- you have your point of view.  Business 
> people have a very different point of view; to them it might make 
> excellent sense, to help secure a competitive advantage.

:D i'm no business man. i am a generalist and i just want to lock my external hdd.

> 
> Alan Stern
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tom schorpp