-- Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:40 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > 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. If the mode pages method worked properly, they wouldn't had to go this other route. > > 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. > Ok, since this patch was the head of the queue, will you need a respin of all the other patchs I posted yesterday? > > 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 ... > Are they aware of the problems we faced? - : 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
