Re: READ CAPACITY 16

Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-17T19:49:07Z

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:36:57PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:32 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Are you willing to take a patch that sends RC16 for devices claiming
> > SCSI_2, and falls back to RC10 if that doesn't work? Or shall I try to
> > implement algorithm D and talk to T10?
>
> Not really ... SCSI_2 is where the problems are. SCSI 3 would be much
> more acceptable. Then you can add an inquiry passthrough to USB
> mangling for devices you need to work.

That works for me. Best of all, I don't care about any USB devices
today, so I won't even have to do the second part!

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Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."