From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, ltd@cisco.com, dtor_core@ameritech.net
Cc: mrmacman_g4@mac.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 7eggert@gmx.de
Subject: Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:17:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <429C47E5.nail5X04XI2PP@burner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26A66BC731DAB741837AF6B2E29C10171E6158@xmb-hkg-413.apac.cisco.com>
> > Let me give up here :-(
> >
> > If you don't understand that the availability of the device
> > serial number is not a basic SCSI feature, it makes no sense
> > to continue this discussion.
>
> bzzt.
>
> oh but it IS a standard SCSI feature. unit serial number is part of the
> VPD page 80h.
> Multipathing software for FC HBAs have made use of this for quite a
> while now.
>
> (ok, we're quibbling here - its OPTIONAL for a device to support this -
> but i can go back ~7 years of SCSI/FC devices i have here and all
> devices i've found do return this...).
OK, if you understand the meaning of the word optional, then you should
know that any example drive that does support is is absolutely no
evidence for general availability.
If you did test enough different drives, you would know that the chance
is less than 50% for beeing able to retrieve the serial number via SCSI.
Jörg
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2005-05-30 22:00 OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog Lincoln Dale (ltd)
2005-05-31 11:17 ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
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2005-05-30 9:19 Lincoln Dale (ltd)
2005-05-30 9:34 ` Toon van der Pas
2005-05-30 12:26 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-30 14:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-31 11:03 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-31 7:29 ` Terry Vernon
2005-05-31 11:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-31 16:59 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-05-31 19:05 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-31 19:56 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-06-01 15:56 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 16:20 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2005-06-01 16:55 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-06-01 2:23 ` Horst von Brand
2005-06-01 15:56 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-06-03 13:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-06-01 16:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-01 15:41 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 15:11 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 15:42 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-01 16:55 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 17:29 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-01 17:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 17:59 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-02 1:14 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-06-02 1:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-06-02 1:23 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-06-03 19:51 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-06-01 22:06 ` Matthias Andree
2005-06-01 15:57 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-05-31 17:22 ` Jim Crilly
2005-05-31 19:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-31 20:54 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-01 15:53 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 16:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-01 17:03 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 17:28 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-02 2:08 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-06-01 17:35 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-06-02 10:34 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2005-06-01 16:21 ` Matthias Andree
2005-06-01 17:29 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 15:28 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-06-01 15:48 ` Jim Crilly
2005-05-30 13:38 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-05-30 9:46 ` Joerg Schilling
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2005-05-26 21:53 ` Bodo Eggert
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2005-05-25 22:46 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-25 23:31 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-26 19:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-26 21:26 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-26 23:30 ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-27 9:39 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-27 11:09 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-27 14:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-30 9:07 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-30 10:47 ` Markus Plail
2005-05-30 22:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-30 23:20 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-30 23:35 ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-05-31 12:51 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-31 12:47 ` Joerg Schilling
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2005-05-27 10:03 ` Joerg Schilling
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2005-05-30 9:36 ` Joerg Schilling
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2005-05-31 10:57 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-25 13:15 Joerg Schilling
2005-05-25 23:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-26 10:15 ` Joerg Schilling
2005-05-26 11:42 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-25 12:50 Joerg Schilling
2005-05-26 4:11 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-05-26 7:14 ` Markus Plail
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