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Subject: Re: PATCH: scsi_scan.c: emulate windows behavior
To: mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net (Matthew Dharm)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:52:43 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
        alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
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> Attached is a one-liner patch to scsi_scan.c, which changes the length of
> the INQUIRY data request from 255 bytes to 36 bytes.  This subtle change
> makes Linux act more like Win/MacOS and other popular OSes, and reduces
> incompatibility with a broad range of out-of-spec devices that will simply
> die if asked for more than the required minimum of 36 bytes.

It breaks sane, it breaks some cd burning tools. We really need all of it
I think
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