Devices not supporting read-6....

[Harald Koenig]

On Jan 22, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> > > 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},
> > 
> > The MMC specs does not tell about READ(6) being mandatory (assuming the
> > device model is that one).
> 
> My old SCSI-II draft (1993...) says both READ(6) and READ(10) are
> mandatory for direct access media (i.e. hard disks).  For CD-ROM drives
> READ(6) is optional and READ(10) is mandatory.  Removing all READ(6) code
> from sr.c should'nt break anything.
>
> So the only device where you have to use READ(6) are probably pre-scsi2
> harddisks (which havn't enouth space for a current unpacked kernel source
> tree...)

what about old SCSI-I cdrom drives like my nice Toshiba XM-3201 ?



Harald
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