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

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 02:08:53 EST

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

I'm told that legacy commands are currently officially depreciated, so
we're going to see more and more of these devices.

                                Roger. 

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