On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 23:25 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > Nikola, > > > thanks for explanation. but disabling write same for now is safe, > > right? > > I was hoping we'd be able to disable it for SATA devices only. > > > root@siv-70140:~ # sg_vpd /dev/sda > > Supported VPD pages VPD page: > > Supported VPD pages [sv] > > Device identification [di] > > Supported VPD pages [sv] > > Supported VPD pages [sv] > > However, it doesn't look like we have much to work with since there > is no ATA Information VPD page exposed. it's the fat firmware problem again. However, the driver does know, so could we persuade a modification of mpt3sas_scsih.c:_scsih_display_sata_capabilities() to populate a VPD page? James
