Patrick, > Values greater than 0x7FFFFF do not fit in the 24 bit big endian two's > complement integer for the underlying scsi SPACE(6) command. I was hoping Kai would chime in. However, since SPACE(6) has been deprecated for a while, I am not so keen on blindly enforcing this in the ioctl interface. I would rather see SPACE(16) support added and then have the supplied count value be validated based on whether the 6 or 16 byte command is being issued to the device. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering