Subject: Re: Explicit enabling of disk caches
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/02/2001 15:32:48
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> Ok, SCSI question -- SCSI-2 says that when you MODE SENSE with a CHANGEABLE
> page control field, you get a "mask denoting those mode parameters that
> are changeable." (X3T9.2/375R revision 10L, page 116, ss 8.2.10.2)
> 
> It isn't terribly clear on exactly which bit in the mask means.. I am
> guessing that it's a variable-length bitmask, each bit indicating
> field number like so:

  No, I think you get back a full data page which contains a 1 in each bit
of the page that you can modify, i.e. if you have a byte that you can only
modify the lower 3 bits of that value, the mask value for that byte would
be 0x07.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
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Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA