From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pat LaVarre Subject: Re: [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH] fix Sony USB mass storage - pass larger receive buffer Date: 14 Nov 2003 10:50:33 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1068832232.5539.69.camel@patrh9> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from email-out1.iomega.com ([147.178.1.82]:43489 "EHLO email.iomega.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264614AbTKNRvL (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:51:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: stern@rowland.harvard.edu Cc: mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net, patmans@us.ibm.com, james.bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, usb-storage@one-eyed-alien.net, ronald@kuetemeier.com, dmitrik@users.sourceforge.net, idan@idanso.dyndns.org All clear now, thanks. > we lose the ability to tell if a compliant > device/media is write-protected. Yes. > different versions of Windows were so incompatible they > often couldn't communicate among themselves. Yes. > CDs, DVDs, etc. present their own set of problems. For the moment I'm > just concerned about disk-type devices, and the only reliable way I can > see to deal with them is to avoid sending any MODE-SENSE commands over > USB. I'll stay tuned to see if eventually we choose to break sd write-protect for the sake of blacklisting mode sense in ATAPI and 1394 as well. Pat LaVarre