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In the 2004-06-04 SCSI/ATA telecon I believe I heard, ... Anybody making a device that ships without a "vendor identification" listed at t10.org actually can fix that rudeness gratis, merely by volunteering t10.org people to help by visiting: http://www.t10.org/ http://www.t10.org/lists/1spc-lst.htm http://www.t10.org/lists/2vid.htm http://www.t10.org/members/vendorid.htm This claim naturally raises the question, how do we know if a device has shipped without a blessed vendor id? A partial answer is: In practice, reserving a "vendor identification" reserves that ID expressed as eight bytes, in upper or lower or arbitrarily mixed case, with any number of leading and trailing blanks. See also: http://www.google.com/search?q=ieee+oui http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml See also: spc 3 annex b iso/iec document 13213 1994 section 3.1.8.0 ata 7 page 137 has full reference Pat LaVarre
