Re: [Linux-usb-users] USB floppy drive no longer works under 2.6.15-rc6

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Matthew Dharm wrote:

> A long time ago, I noticed a quirk of the UFI specification in regards to
> one of the options for how to indicate a LUN isn't there.  Something about
> a special PDT, I think, in the INQUIRY respose.  I don't recall the
> details, but I do recall thinking something along the lines of "that's
> odd.. and it's going to confuse the SCSI core."
> 
> If I can find some time to search for that oddity of spec, then modify the
> UFI protocol handler to translate that oddity into a result code the SCSI
> core can understand, you can close the #2 case.

I see what you mean.  The UFI spec requires a device to return 0x1f in the
first byte of the INQUIRY response if no device is present at the LUN.  
That's Peripheral Qualifier = 0 and PDT = 0x1f (unknown or no device).  
Now SCSI-2 requires the value to be 0x7f to indicate no device, but UFI
also requires the returned SCSI level to be 0, and I don't know what
SCSI-0 says about reporting no device at a LUN.

Does anybody among the SCSI developers have the answer?  Should 
scsi_probe_and_add_lun() check for (result[0] & 0x1f) == 0x1f whenever 
(result[2] & 0x07) == 0?

If not, perhaps usb-storage should alter the returned value and max_lun
for a UFI device whenever we see 0x1f.

Alan Stern

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