Hello, On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:13:16PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Do you mean the GET EVENT STATUS NOTIFICATION command (as there is > no CHECK MEDIA EVENT STATUS command in SCSI or ATA)? If so it is > one of the "good guys" along with the REQUEST SENSE command. And > as I said TUR is not recommended. So looking at MS usage _and_ > the standards is a useful guide. Yes, that's the one. Sorry, I always get confused about its name. IIRC, it's a relatively new command, right? Anyways, I'm not arguing standards are useless but that actual usages have to take precedence. > I agree. SCSI and ATA define idle states (with some fuzziness in > the naming) that have timers associated with them. Those > mechanisms seem to work pretty well without the intervention of > commands like START STOP UNIT. Cool, thanks. -- tejun -- 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
