On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> On Monday 19 July 2004 02:57, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Allen Briggs wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 02:21:57AM +0000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>>>> Fill in blank "vendor" and "product_id" fields with "UNKNOWN", to make
>>>> it possible to match a valid entry in ~/.cdrdao-drivers.
>>>
>>> Catching up on the tech-kern messages just now, I've been wondering
>>> if "EMPTY" or "UNSPEC" or "MISSING" might be better than "UNKNOWN".
>>> Probably just my personal taste...  :-)
>>
>> I briefly considered "Unspecified", except that doesn't fit in the
>> eight letters allowed. "BLANK" might be good, since the field is
>> actually 8 space characters, except I can just about imagine a company
>> named "BLANK", and no user should care that the field is space-filled,
>> but only that there's no useful information in it.
>
> Perhaps making it use the SCSI INQUIRY info instead would fix the problem...

It seems to me that "cdrdao" is using SCSI INQUIRY. When I changed the 
return value of ata_get_parms() in "sys/dev/ata/ata.c", it changed the 
kernel message text, but not the result of "cdrdao" or "scsictl". This 
manufacturer is apparently very shy, and does not want us to get its 
name in any fashion whatsoever.


Frederick