On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:27 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > > About the best we can do is check the first four fields. For them to be > > > > all zero, it would have to be a minimal response SCSI-1 device (RDF of > > > > zero) ... hopefully they're all dead by now. > > > > > > Then you're saying that the patch should everything up to > > > inq_result[8]? Or maybe even beyond? I can do that. Would that be > > > acceptable? > > > > No ... "first four fields" means everything up to inq_result[3]. > > Anything beyond that would be legitimately zero if they were. > > But what about the case where the first four bytes are zero and some of > the fields beyond them are nonzero. Isn't that possible? Not if the device conforms to the standard. James -- 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
