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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Print SCSI Inquiry data more compactly
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:50:57 -0600
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:41:50PM -0400, Philip R. Auld wrote:
> >     scsi 2:0:1:0: Device: DASD HP 18.2G ATLAS10K3_18_SCA HP05 ANSI ver: 02
> 
> Parsing this, (and the Matt's earlier version), there are 5 tokens
> there in the middle for 4 fields. How does one know what the vendor
> string is for example?

1) This is not for parsing, it's informational for users.  Do tools
really still parse through /var/log/dmesg?

2) This information is available other ways, such as through sysfs and
procfs.

3) I know it's not obvious from the above example (damn HP firmware),
but these are actually fixed-size fields.  The first is 8 bytes, "HP 18.2G"
the second 16 bytes are "ATLAS10K3_18_SCA", the third is "HP05" and then
the ANSI ver is at the end.