Re: Genesys gl811e (InLine 3.5" IDE enclosure)

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Christopher Friedt wrote:

> I've done the usb debug part, and discovered that the problem actually 
> lies with the scsi layer. The really tough part is that in the scsi 
> layer there are several threads operating at once, and I know for a fact 
> that this usb-ide bridge only has limited support for scsi commands 
> (sheesh!).

As far as I know, the SCSI layer doesn't use any commands that the Genesys 
adapters don't support.  Have you got explicit examples?

> In any event, as long as I know that it works, even if it can only be 
> initialized by the bios, then at least I can use it, and I haven't 
> wasted some money.
> 
> Thanks for the info ;-)

You're welcome.

> If i should continue to debug the scsi part, I don't mind doing so in my 
> spare time, if it could be of use to the kernel and the rest of the 
> community.

One never knows...  But if you don't post your results then they certainly 
will never get a chance to help anybody else.

Alan Stern


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