> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:03 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Martin K. Petersen; Sitsofe Wheeler; Christoph Hellwig; > gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ohering@xxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; > jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] [SCSI] Make LBP quirk skip lbpme checks tests > > >>>>> "KY" == KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > KY, > > KY> "At the time thin-provisioning was defined, the discovery > KY> information was first proposed in READ CAPACITY 16 command. And > then > KY> moved into the new dedicated VPD page - B2h. You can see the > KY> information reported in this VPD page is richer than READ CAPACITY > KY> 16 command. As this transition happened during we added the feature, > KY> Windows uses the newer method that based on VPD page B2h. It looks > KY> Linux tries to use both new and old method which is weird to me." > > The READ CAPACITY(16) response is not optional. Ok; that settles the issue then. I will attempt to get it fixed on Windows. K. Y > > -- > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
