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From: Pat LaVarre
Subject: Re: [usb-storage] Re: [linux-usb-devel] [2.6-test] Bug in
usb-storage or scsi?
Date: 11 Sep 2003 14:04:54 -0600
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> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104839042700001&r=1&w=2
Thanks, there I find 44 posts dated since 2003-03 with Subject's like:
"PATCH: exclude certain commands from emulated SCSI hosts".
By the way, Google yields a slightly different set of 44 posts:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=linux.scsi.20030322193705.C17056%40one-eyed-alien.net
In both archives I think I see much sense:
> > From: Matthew Dharm ...
> >
> > (a) don't ask for EVPD data, ...
> > (b) assume ... only 36-bytes of INQUIRY data, ...
> > (c) ... assume write-enabled for all disk-like media.
>
> From: Linus Torvalds
>
> suggest ... make the Linux SCSI layer
> ... use the sequences of commands that "that other OS" uses ...
> "don't use commands that haven't gotten much testing" ...
I haven't yet reviewed the rest.
Pat LaVarre