Devices not supporting read-6....

[Jens Axboe]

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.

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

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