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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][SCS] sd: Read Capacity if (16) fails
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:44:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1bq06w0tb.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218040613.7493.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (James Bottomley's message of "Wed\, 06 Aug 2008 09\:36\:53 -0700")

>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:

James> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 16:34 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> PQual=0 Device_type=0 RMB=1 version=0x00 [no conformance claimed]

James> We could try using this as the trigger.  I assume all DIF
James> supporting devices must also claim conformance to SPC3/SBC2 or
James> higher?

You'd think, wouldn't you?

Originally I only checked for PROTECT if version was SBC2 or better.
But as it turns out I have drives that only report SBC and yet they do
DIF.  This old version is apparently reported to prevent problems in
other operating systems.

*sigh*

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06 14:06 [PATCH][SCS] sd: Read Capacity if (16) fails Hugh Dickins
2008-08-06 14:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-06 16:35   ` James Bottomley
2008-08-06 14:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-08-06 15:34   ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-06 16:36     ` James Bottomley
2008-08-06 16:44       ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2008-08-06 16:53       ` James Bottomley
2008-08-06 17:21         ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-06 17:32           ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-08-06 17:36             ` James Bottomley
2008-08-06 16:44     ` Douglas Gilbert

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