Re: [PATCH] Driver for Toshiba DVD-RAM (SCSI) (kernel 2.2.11)
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 15:26:10 +0100 (BST)
> > + * Modified by Reed Meyer <rdm@astro.yale.edu> to support the Toshiba
> > + * SD-W1101 DVD-RAM (which doesn't like 6-byte commands). Changed the
> > + * default I/O to 10-byte commands, with the minor side-effect that
> > + * the driver doesn't use the slightly-faster(?) 6-byte commands
>
> The READ6 and WRITE6 commands are deprecated. The READ6 is still specified
> as mandatory for block devices for compatibility with old initialisation
> code. WRITE6 is specified as optionnal for block devices.
If this is using IDE-SCSI then ATAPI only seems to support 10 byte
command format. You fix that in ide-scsi.c if so not by butchering the scsi
layer. I had to add M/O disks to ide-scsi.c for this case as an example.
Alan
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