Devices not supporting read-6....

[Matthew Jacob]

Better support it. I believe that the newer ATAPI and RBC devices are all
using 10 byte commands.


On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> As far as I know, "read-6" is a very mandatory command. However
> there is a device, the 
> 
>    {"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?
> 
> 	- Ignore the issue, and just let people with this hardware
> 	  live with a non-working drive?
> 
> Is there maybe already something implemented? Anybody the "owner" of
> that piece of code?
> 
> I seem to own the "blist_ghost" stuff, so it's going to be listed
> there, but then the system runs into not-working read-6 commands.
> 
> 				Roger.
> 
> P.S. (I'm not on linux-scsi, and I'm on vacation starting saturday).
> I had been hoping it would've been as easy as listing the drive as
> a 'blist_ghost' thing, but now things are more complicated... 
> 
> 
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