>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: [Sorry about the delay. Catching up on a couple of weeks worth of email] Bernd> So if anything else than a Seagate drive is connected to an Areca Bernd> controller with older firmware it will still fail. It's just blacklisting a specific Seagate drive. However, skip_vpd_pages is also set by USB. I'm still completely in favor of your patch to reduce the VPD buffer size. Please resubmit and feel free to add my Acked-by:. -- 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