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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:56:29 +0900
From:      Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Subject:   Re: RBC support patch
Message-ID:  <ybsit8rvyj6.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <200202201936.g1KJaAO07448@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <ybs1yfgybmq.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202201936.g1KJaAO07448@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200202202359.g1KNxeI41069@aslan.scsiguy.com>

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At Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:36:10 +0100 (MET),
Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Another issue, there are many broken 'Direct Access' devices which
> > don't support 'READ(6)/WRITE(6)' operations.
> 
> They are not broken.  READ(6)/WRITE(6) are not mandatory for direct
> access devices by the standard, but READ(10)/WRITE(10) are.

If this was true, FreeBSD is broken X-)

At Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:59:40 -0700,
Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@scsiguy.com> wrote:
> 
> >  What do you mean by "adjust dynamically"?
> 
> If a 6 byte command fails with "command not supported", switch to
> 10 byte commands, and retry the current transaction.  As far as I
> know, the devices do return a proper response.  Those that don't,
> we will still have to black list.
> 
> --
> Justin

This seems right way to go.

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