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Re: sys/dev/scsipi/scsipi_base.c



On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:19:11PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> A "gratuitous padding" here would break anyway, as this structure is
> filled in by hardware (it's what's returned by a device to an INQUIRY
> command).
> 

This is the important point - when you receive an inquiry back from
any scsi hardware these fields will be exactly the same, the device
just returns a 28 byte char aray.  The scsi spec layers the meaning
over the top of the top of that array (if I recall correctly, it is
exactly the same for ATA too)

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