On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 11:50:42AM -0800, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > Sergey Vlasov wrote: > >Hello! > > > >The ViPowER USB-IDE enclosure based on the SMCS chipset does not work > >with 2.4.x kernels (tested with 2.4.26) when used with ATAPI devices > >(like a DVD-RW drive). However, it works with 2.4.x when used with an > >IDE disk; it also works with 2.6.10 with IDE or ATAPI devices. > > <massive deletia> > > Why add a flag for limiting to 252? Couldn't some devices want 251?
In fact, I suspect that it just does not like odd numbers there. > Wouldn't we want to instead either > A) Backport the new (36-byte) INQUIRY command to 2.4 Most likely this would not be acceptable for 2.4 now... > OR > > B) Make the flag support 36-byte INQUIRY > > The logic behind B being that if it doesn't like 255, it should like 36 > definitely. What data do we lose in this case (this particular device was returning 96 bytes in the INQUIRY result)?
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