From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Dharm Subject: Re: [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH] fix Sony USB mass storage - pass larger receive buffer Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:04:16 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031113170416.D30194@one-eyed-alien.net> References: <1068766852.2851.155.camel@patrh9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9dgjiU4MmWPVapMU" Return-path: Received: from ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net ([64.169.228.100]:21509 "EHLO ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261678AbTKNBEW (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:04:22 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1068766852.2851.155.camel@patrh9>; from p.lavarre@ieee.org on Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:40:52PM -0700 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Pat LaVarre Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu, 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 --9dgjiU4MmWPVapMU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:40:52PM -0700, Pat LaVarre wrote: > > > 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? > >=20 > > The notion makes sense for tape drives as well. >=20 > Re write-protect, personally I know only of discs that have > write-protect tabs. >=20 > 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? I've seen write-protect switches/jumpers on SCSI disks, on tapes, and even flash-disk keychain devices. Matt --=20 Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.= net=20 Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver C: They kicked your ass, didn't they? S: They were cheating! -- The Chief and Stef User Friendly, 11/19/1997 --9dgjiU4MmWPVapMU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/tCoQIjReC7bSPZARAtqqAKCaZdSdvnmm3A4YF9ZzCkkpn1MULgCginDg AaPC61pawIXbVj74MDZJQnQ= =NMtR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9dgjiU4MmWPVapMU--