Am Montag, den 10.07.2017, 16:26 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > > > The old storage driver unconditionally limits inquiries to 36 bytes.
> > > > UAS does not
> > > > have that limit. That seems to be a bit optimistic. Could you test the
> > > > attached patch?
> > >
> > > If there's no particular benefit to 96-byte inquiries, it would be
> >
> > Interesting. Why do we make them at all?
>
> I don't know. Presumably they do provide useful information for some
> devices, but I'm not aware of what that information is -- you'd have to
> ask the SCSI people.
I was told to respect the <censored> standards.
The extended data is vendor specific. There is no way to know how
important it is.
> What I really had in mind was whether a 96-byte inquiry provides any
> benefit for USB mass-storage devices. Again, I don't know the answer.
We need to look at UAS to SCSI bridges. And they have a point. We cannot
punish everybody who does it right, just because there is one known broken
drive. So I would leave the quirk in.
Regards
Oliver
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