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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: scsi: require help for one issue about INQUIRY?
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:40:12 +0200
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On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 22:30 +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> HI,
> 
> When one machine was started with one scsi device,the information
> below was showed. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?
> 
> "scsi scan: INQUIRY result too short (5), using 36"
> "Scsi 2:0:292:0: Direct-Access"

Well, it means what it says: the device wrongly returned only 5 bytes
for the INQUIRY command.  Why it did this is a hardware issue.

James