In message <mtud71hmr8c.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>, Nathan J. William
s writes:
>Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
>
>> Try a quirk to disable the short form of READ and WRITE.  There are
>> other devices with this quirk (these quires are in scsiconf.c, I think).
>
>Ah, that did indeed fix it!
>
>Given that we don't seem to have any devices with the opposite quirk,
>I kind of like Jason's idea....

I tried the same patch to try to fix kern/13935, but it didn't do the 
trick.  Well, I think I tried that patch.  There's already a quirk 
table entry for my floppy; I tried adding PQUIRK_ONLYBIG to its entry.
On the other hand, as best I can tell from some diagnostic printf's 
scsi_probedev isn't called and that's the only thing that looks at
scsi_quirk_patterns, so it doesn't matter much what I put.  But 
that probably shows that I'm far too tired to be allowed near kernel 
source today.  (I also tried deleting the code in sd.c that did 
short-form reads and writes -- still didn't fix it.)

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