>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Doug> I just examined a more recent Areca SAS RAID controller and would Doug> describe it as the SCSI device from hell. One solution to this Doug> problem is to modify the arcmsr driver so it returns a more Doug> consistent set of lies to the management SCSI commands that Martin Doug> is asking about. Yeah. This is quite the challenge given that the product id is user-specified and product revision hardcoded. I can match on "Areca" in the vendor id and that's about it :( My current approach is to tweak the driver so that I can set skip_vpd_pages for the ATA models. Under the assumption that the SAS controllers actually feature the ATA Information VPD... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html