On 9/24/2013 12:39 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > My drives support 'report opcodes', and report that write same is > supported: ... 93 16 Write same(16) ... > > but no support for page 'b0'. And yes, these are real SAS drives. So the question is, how many devices get the protect bit in the std inquiry incorrect? If that is mostly correct, how about std inquiry (SPC>2), protect bit, and then VPD page 0x86 (or alternatively then do the READ CAPACITY, P_TYPE instead of page 0x86)? After all, the set of valid read/write opcodes is limited by the protection mode format, yes? -- 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