[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] ESP : Fix SCSI READ command length

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 21:02:43 CET 2011


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 28/01/11 21:47, Blue Swirl wrote:
>
>>> Could you re-submit with an extra description, describing briefly i) what
>>> symptoms did you see without the patch, ii) what does this fix with the
>>> patch applied, and iii) a document reference which verifies the command
>>> length should be 11 instead of 10.
>>
>> For iii): SCSI-3 Block Commands (SBC), 6.1.5 READ(10): the number of
>> bytes is 10 for the command itself. Before the command there is one
>> byte for IDENTIFY (0x80), defined by SCSI Parallel Interface. Thus 11,
>> like READ_CAPACITY below. INQUIRY is 6+1, defined in SCSI Primary
>> Commands.
>
> Given that we've had no response on this to date, what shall we do? Blue, if
> you're happy enough the patch is correct based upon the above then please
> feel free to apply.

OK. Thanks, applied.



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