Re: Bugs in scsi_vpd_inquiry()

Martin K. Petersen
2009-08-10T22:48:05Z

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:

Alan,

>> If the bridge doesn't provide the SCSI rev. where does it come from?
>> Or are you saying there's a USB "target" chip and then a USB-SATA
>> bridge chip behind it?

Alan> There's the bridge chip and the drive itself. The drive provides
Alan> the INQUIRY data and the chip provides the USB identifiers.

But the drive is ATA. It must be the bridge that translates whatever
the drive reports in IDENTIFY DEVICE into something that makes sense in
the SPC/SBC universe.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering