RE: [usb-storage] Re: PATCH: exclude certain commands from emulated SCSI hosts

Pat LaVarre
2003-04-09T15:03:56Z

> > Fibre Channel, Parallel SCSI, SSA, IEEE 1394,
> > RDMA (infiniband), Internet SCSI, SAS, ...
> > ATAPI ... USB ...
>...
> SCSI thru the legacy PC printer port ...

I hear Windows contains separate binary-code-only for
each of these that it supports.

Rumour tells me, for example, that the first CDB's
seen by the device can vary between FireWire and USB,
because they don't come from a shared analogoue of
sd.c, but instead they come from code built for just
one particular bus, charged with beginning life by
distinguishing HDD from CD from DVD etc.

For example, I've heard that some FireWire HDD's
worked in Windows without supporting op x12 Inquiry.

Might be smart for Linux to give in sooner, rather
than later. So long as we are engaged in publishing a
model of what the de facto Windows SCSI-over-whatever
standards are, we may as well include a copy the basic
structure of the original.

Pat LaVarre

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