On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Alan, > > >> If the bridge doesn't provide the SCSI rev. where does it come from? > >> Or are you saying there's a USB "target" chip and then a USB-SATA > >> bridge chip behind it? > > Alan> There's the bridge chip and the drive itself. The drive provides > Alan> the INQUIRY data and the chip provides the USB identifiers. > > But the drive is ATA. It must be the bridge that translates whatever > the drive reports in IDENTIFY DEVICE into something that makes sense in > the SPC/SBC universe. Right. The drive provides the data, and the bridge massages it into the form of an INQUIRY response and sends it back to the host. Alan Stern -- 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
