On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:05 -0600, Eric Moore wrote: > Response from co-worker that implemented this: > The reason HP switched from using a standard Mode Page setting to > using a vendor unique CDB is due to SCSI protocol problems. I haven't objected to the vendor specific CDB yet ... although if everyone implemented one of these the first time they found a difficulty with one of the SCSI standards, the storage world would be in a bit of a mess. What I did say is that you can't do this in the driver ... it has to be in the transport layer because it's not a driver problem. Any other SAS driver would have the same issue. > The usage of Mode Sense and Mode Select will still work with the HP > tape drives, if you can find a way around the above issues. But I > would suggest discussing any solution with the HP-Bristol tape drive > folks. Yes ... someone at HP is asking them about this ... James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
