Re: Devices not supporting read-6....

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 09:21:34 EST


On Fri, Jan 21 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > {"TOSHIBA","DVD-RAM SD-W1101","*", BLIST_GHOST},
> >
> > which doesn't implement it.
> >
> > What do we do?
> >
> > - Blacklist it as "doesn't support read-6" and implement
> > stuff to prevent read-6 if that flag is set?
>
> Is this ide-scsi. ATAPI does not require legacy command modes. If its atapi
> maybe ide-scsi isnt mapping right. If its real scsi then ask Toshiba for
> scsi firmware. Thats just too fundamentally screwy to bother with

Not quite that screwy, 6 byte read/writes are not mandatory with
optical devices, but the 10 byte variants are. So using read-6/write-6
is a mistake in the first case.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk

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