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

Pete Zaitcev
2005-11-04T23:46:13Z

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:30:44 -0800, "Timothy Thelin" <Timothy.Thelin@wdc.com> wrote:

> The problem then is with vendor specific commands as SCSI core
> mangles those as well. The vendor specific command I had issues
> with is the "ATACB" ATA passthru cdb that cypress boards understand.
> CDB[1] is a signature byte that must be 0x24. Needless to say,
> that leading 2 gets masked off to a 0, and the drive aborts the
> ATACB. Now cypress could have been smarter about designing their
> cdb, but they wern't, and so there really needs to be a way to tell
> SCSI core "hands off the cdb".

If this issue is real, you can use ub with that device for now.

-- Pete