On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:05:34PM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Tracking down kern/26537, I noticed our cd(4) and sd(4)
> drivers issue SCSI Mode Sense command on page 0.
> 
> The SCSI specification says the page 0 is ``vendor-specific'' and
> even the parameter format may be non-standard.
> 
> For what reasons our drivers use such a vendor-specific behavior?

I suspect it was the way to retrieve the block size on older scsi
devices. Maybe we should try to use READ_FORMAT_CAPACITIES before going
to Mode Sense page 0.

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