> The Linux-SCSI people (now on the CC:) have rejected the idea of making all
> INQUIRYs 36-bytes.  Apparently, there are some HBA drivers which want to
> snoop the INQUIRY data in the vendor-specific area for some reason.

For one the full INQ data is needed by some scanner drivers

> I'm thinking that the best solution is to have the SCSI layer send a
> 36-byte INQUIRY to probe if the low-level driver has the 'emulation' flag
> set.... that will also nicely cover the IEEE1394 people, who have been
> facing the same problem.

That sounds workable. Basically a full inquiry has to do the right thing
for real scsi scanners. 

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