Re: [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH] fix Sony USB mass storage - pass larger receive buffer

Pat LaVarre
2003-11-13T23:41:25Z

> > Anybody able to clue me in quickly as to why classifying a device as
> > writable or not, rather than a disc, can ever be meaningful?
>
> The notion makes sense for tape drives as well.

Re write-protect, personally I know only of discs that have
write-protect tabs.

Are we saying some SCSI drives have write-protect switches also? Only
tape drives or also the disk drives of sd and the disc drives of cdrom/
sr/ ide-cd?

Are we saying for some reason that we prefer detecting the write-protect
of such a drive once at plug in rather than again after each disc
insertion? For what reason?

Pat LaVarre