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The t10.org translate SCSI to ATA work has already begun to pay off, as quoted below, by the way.
Pat LaVarre
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2004-05-16 21:33:18-04:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [libata] SCSI->ATA simulator hacking: INQUIRY command
The SCSI T10 committee is working on a document describing a standard
method for translating ATA<->SCSI, since it being done quite often
these days. Some of the recommendations are reasonable, and we implement
two here:
* Mirror that ATA 'removeable media' bit into INQUIRY output.
* Change behavior of INQUIRY output field 'product revision' from
the libata software version number to the first 4 bytes of the
ATA device's firmware revision number.Rather than cache the firmware revision in struct ata_device, as was/is
done with two other strings, I took the opportunity to eliminate the
caching of the two other strings, 'vendor' and 'product'. These strings
are now retrieved as needed from the IDENTIFY [PACKET] DEVICE info page,
since we cache its entire contents.
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