Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2 3/3] [SCSI] Make LBP quirk skip lbpme checks tests | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:05:10 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.petersen@oracle.com] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:03 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Martin K. Petersen; Sitsofe Wheeler; Christoph Hellwig; > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; ohering@suse.com; apw@canonical.com; > jasowang@redhat.com; jbottomley@parallels.com; linux- > scsi@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] [SCSI] Make LBP quirk skip lbpme checks tests > > >>>>> "KY" == KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> writes: > > KY, > > KY> "At the time thin-provisioning was defined, the discovery > KY> information was first proposed in READ CAPACITY 16 command. And > then > KY> moved into the new dedicated VPD page - B2h. You can see the > KY> information reported in this VPD page is richer than READ CAPACITY > KY> 16 command. As this transition happened during we added the feature, > KY> Windows uses the newer method that based on VPD page B2h. It looks > KY> Linux tries to use both new and old method which is weird to me." > > The READ CAPACITY(16) response is not optional.
Ok; that settles the issue then. I will attempt to get it fixed on Windows.
K. Y
> > -- > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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