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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:39:02 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3
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Mark Lord wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> Fine with me but you'll need more than just the identify data, if you 
>> wanna do stuff like support MODE SELECT/SENSE.
> 
> 
> QStor has no need for MODE_SELECT, and the current implementation
> of MODE_SENSE in libata-scsi appears to use only the IDENTIFY data.
> 
> The READ_CAPACITY emulation in libata-scsi currently uses dev->n_sectors,
> but that could be changed to recalculate it from the IDENTIFY words.
> 
> So.. okay in concept?

Seems sane, send a patch.

Typically we aren't in the business of pre-approving patches, much to 
ESR's chagrin :)

	Jeff


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