Douglas, I am trying to generate Descriptor format sense data from driver attached to LSI controller. I have tried few sets of commands on my linux machine. Please help me if anything is wrong here. 1. Output of " sg_inq -d /dev/sg0" [root@dhcp-135-24-192-117 ~]# sg_inq -d /dev/sg0 standard INQUIRY: PQual=0 Device_type=0 RMB=0 version=0x06 [SPC-4] [AERC=0] [TrmTsk=0] NormACA=0 HiSUP=1 Resp_data_format=2 SCCS=0 ACC=0 TPGS=0 3PC=0 Protect=0 BQue=0 EncServ=0 MultiP=0 [MChngr=0] [ACKREQQ=0] Addr16=0 [RelAdr=0] WBus16=0 Sync=0 Linked=0 [TranDis=0] CmdQue=1 [SPI: Clocking=0x0 QAS=0 IUS=0] length=74 (0x4a) Peripheral device type: disk Vendor identification: ATA Product identification: WDC WD30EZRS-00J Product revision level: 0A80 Unit serial number: WD-WCAWZ0036672 Version descriptors: SAM-4 (no version claimed) SAT-2 (no version claimed) SPC-4 (no version claimed) SBC-3 (no version claimed) SAS ANSI INCITS 376-2003 ATA/ATAPI-8 ATA-ACS ATA/ATAPI command set (no version claimed) 2. Output of " sg_requests -v /dev/sg0 -d" [root@dhcp-135-24-192-117 ~]# sg_requests -v /dev/sg0 -d Request Sense cmd: 03 01 00 00 fc 00 request sense: Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request Additional sense: Invalid field in cdb bad field in Request Sense cdb 3. Reading beyond the range of drive to get sense data. Output of "sg_read if=/dev/sg0 cdbsz=16 skip=0x15d50a3af00 bs=512 verbose=3 count=512" [root@dhcp-135-24-192-117 ~]# sg_read if=/dev/sg0 cdbsz=16 skip=0x15d50a3af00 bs=512 verbose=3 count=512 Opened /dev/sg0 for SG_IO with flags=0x2 SG_GET_RESERVED_SIZE yields: 32768 read cdb: 88 00 00 00 01 5d 50 a3 af 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 duration=123 ms reading: SCSI status: Check Condition Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request Additional sense: Logical block address out of range Raw sense data (in hex): 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 sg_read: SCSI READ failed Some error occurred, remaining block count=512 0+0 records in My Drive is SPC-4 complaint and sg_requests suggested to have SPC-3 or higher version to enable descriptor format. _But_ for me it is not working. Eventually, When I try to run command as mentioned in #3, I want to see Descriptor format sense instead of Fixed one. Thanks, Kashyap -- 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