is MinBlock == MaxBlock common?

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Tue Sep 16 11:20:35 PDT 2003


On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Dan Langille wrote:
> How common is it for a device to have a MinBlock == MaxBlock as in
> the following?
>
> I ask this because this is what it showing up after I patched my
> sa(4).  See
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=43376+0+current/freebsd-
> scsi for details.
>
> # /usr/local/sbin/tapeinfo -f /dev/pass0
> Product Type: Tape Drive
> Vendor ID: 'WANGTEK '
> Product ID: '51000  SCSI M74H'
> Revision: '12B3'
> Attached Changer: Yes
> MinBlock:512
> MaxBlock:512
> Ready: yes

Since you effectively hard-coded the blocksize to 512 using the quirk,
you're just getting that value sent back to you, not the actual device
MODE SENSE page.

-Nate


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