From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: bburk@extremeprotocol.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: READ CAPACITY 16
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:25:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217172516.GD19967@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081217102048.a3c6426c1bfee0652ed014f32bc3b38e.0b45b81fab.wbe@email.secureserver.net>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:20:48AM -0700, bburk@extremeprotocol.com wrote:
> Algorithm D is rather pointless. Even if T10 added an Inquiry bit,
> there's no guarentee that all devices will support it, especially older
> devices made before the change so even if it got put in you STILL can't
> rely on it and will have to all back to other methods to get the
> information that you're looking for.
The UNMAP command is still in the draft stages. Now is exactly the
right time to push for the TPE bit to be moved from RC16 to INQUIRY.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-17 17:20 READ CAPACITY 16 bburk
2008-12-17 17:25 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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2008-12-17 16:42 Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-17 17:50 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-17 18:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-17 18:57 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-17 19:04 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-17 19:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-17 19:14 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-17 19:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-17 19:36 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-17 19:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-18 9:05 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-18 14:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-18 14:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-18 14:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-18 14:52 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-18 14:59 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-18 20:41 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-12-09 14:33 read capacity 16 Frank Borich
2004-12-09 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-08 21:07 Frank Borich
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