On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Klaus Muth wrote:

> Yep, I noticed the missing spaces, that is the reason why I added those 
> markers (>...<) in the kprint message. But I didn't know, that this is a 
> violation of the SCSI standard.

It is.  However, the device claims to support ANSI SCSI revision 0, which 
isn't a real standard at all.  It's more like saying: "I will support 
whatever most of the pre-1990 SCSI devices supported, approximately."

> Yes, it did mount and I was able to read the data on it and it was possible 
> to 
> create and delete files on the device. (see above, I said "this thin 
> magically works", forgetting the 'g' at "thing"). Adding the OPTAC Tool to 
> the static table may be the best fix at the moment, since my servers depend 
> heavily on SCSI, changing something more complicated than adding something to 
> a list will render me sleepless...

That does sound like the simplest solution for now.

> I'm not really happy with this solution, since
> 1. the static table is obsolete and may vanish some day as a comment says
> 2. I have to compile and test a new kernel for my 10 production servers
> 3. the device firmware may change in near future, it seems not to be finished
>    according to the facts you found out.
> 
> Thank you very much for your help. I'm working now for over 10 years with 
> linux and I'm constantly astonished, how nice and helpful all those community 
> members are, when problems arise :).

You're welcome.

Alan Stern


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