Il 04/03/2012 19:49, Kevin O'Connor ha scritto:
>> > The sg_modes command has a "-a" option to dump out all of the supported 
>> > page codes
>> >    - it reports that none of the thumbdrives (tested 9) support page code 
>> > = 4 
>> >    - it reports that most of the thumbdrives (tested 9) support page code 
>> > = 5
>> >    - it commented that page code 5 is obsolete
> Thanks Dave.  I appreciate your detailed analysis.
> 
> The call to cdb_mode_sense_geom() was only recently added.  I'm
> inclined to just remove the call.  Paolo, is there a use case where
> having the "physical" chs info is important?  SeaBIOS should generate
> good "virtual" chs info regardless, and the underlying "physical" info
> is only exported in a couple of places.

MS-DOS doesn't boot if you do not export the physical chs.  I can remove
it, but it was the best testcase I had for SCSI support.

The simplest solution seems to be to look for page 4 support in page 0x3f.

Paolo


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