From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932417AbWH1JZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:25:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932421AbWH1JZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:25:11 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55726 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932417AbWH1JZJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:25:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:24:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stefan Richter , Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4 1/5] ieee1394: sbp2: workaround for write protect bit of Initio firmware Message-ID: <20060828092429.GA8980@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Stefan Richter , Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:17:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > > Yet another mode pages related bug of Initio firmwares was seen. > > INIC-1530 with a firmware by Initio responded with garbage to MODE SENSE > > (10). Some HDDs were therefore incorrectly marked as write protected: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6947 > > Why does sbp2scsi_slave_configure() set "use_10_for_ms" in the first > place? I suspect that's because the typical command set for ieee1394 devices is RBC which only specifies the 10-byte commands.