Mike Anderson wrote: > A number of user apps like lvm scanning that execute media access commands > already have filter capability to filter devices that one does not want to > scan. Another class of device scanners just use inquiries which are not > effected by the passive state (though some could probably use udevinfo and > reduce the amount of repeated SCSI inquiries execute on the system. To expand on this: At least on desktop systems and SOHO server systems, userspace should _never_ issue INQUIRY. There are too many broken firmwares out there which assume that there will never be more than one INQUIRY sent. They start to return garbled data or crash if they get a second INQUIRY. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- --=- --=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
