Naive question: 2.2.x or 2.4.x drvconfig equivalent in the w

Max TenEyck Woodbury mtew at cds.duke.edu
Tue Jul 17 12:12:09 PDT 2001


Gregory Hosler wrote:
> 
> On 17-Jul-01 Vincent Cojot wrote:
> 
> When a scsi driver loads, either in kernel init, or when the driver itself
> is loaded (e.g. insmod in Linux), the driver will send a "test unit ready"
> to each possible lun on the scsi chain. It then makes note of what devices are
> available, and adds these to the scsi device list (/proc/scsi/scsi). As far as
> I am aware, this is ONLY done when the driver initializes itself, though the
> last time I spent alot of time in the scsi layer (i.e. above the driver layer)
> was circa 1.0 / 1.2, and some things have changed since then.

I'd have not checked and I probably should, but hasn't the "test unit ready"
test been replaced by an "inquire" test. IIRC there was some discussion to the
effect that TUR was contra-standard.

mtew at cds.duke.edu

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