Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:16:46 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <oliver.fromme@secnetix.de> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org (John Baldwin) Cc: groudier@free.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?=), hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List), hardware@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hardware Mailing List), olli@secnetix.de (Oliver Fromme), gene@nttmcl.com (Eugene M. Kim), tlambert2@mindspring.com (Terry Lambert), joe@tao.org.uk (Josef Karthauser) Subject: Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks Message-ID: <200202091216.g19CGk874726@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020208224908.jhb@FreeBSD.org> from "John Baldwin" at Feb 08, 2002 10:49:08 PM
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John Baldwin wrote: > On 07-Feb-02 Gérard Roudier wrote: > > A couple of READ/WRITE 6 byte commands are still mandatory for SCSI block > > devices in order to accomodate softwares as boot software for example that > > may not be upgradable on systems still in use. Softwares that are > > maintained should no longer use 6 byte commands, but use the 10 byte > > commands replacement (for years...). > > Just so you know, I made the umass driver for UFI and ATA translate SCSI > 6 byte commands to 10 byte commands. There is a simple function call to do the > change if you wish to do this in for the SCSI transforms as well. I think that would be a very good idea. The boot software issue is negligible, because there aren't any USB devices you can boot from. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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