Re: [usb-storage] [PATCH] Another SanDisk USB stick with a cdrom scsi lun

[Ben Collins <ben.collins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 12:46 -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> (Adding Ben Collins, who put another U3 patch into the system.)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:40:25PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > David Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:55:09AM -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > > 
> > >> This is overly complex, and doesn't really solve anything.  The fake 
> > >> CD-ROM
> > >> is there.  Who knows what's on it?  If the desktop wants to ignore it,
> > >> that's fine... but as a transport-oriented driver, usb-storage should
> > >> cleanly transport the commands as much as possible.
> > > 
> > > It is also possible to change the data that is on the fake CD-ROM, so this
> > > could conceivably be used for something from Linux as well.  I don't know
> > > if anyone has figured out how to change the CD-ROM image from Linux, but it
> > > is certainly a possibility.
> > > 
> > 
> > I understand, well then someone needs to file an RFE for this against hal and 
> > we all need to help to get a list of ids of u3 deviced in hal.
> 
> We should also find out why there is another U3 patch in the kernel.  It
> came in with a patch that referred to some Ubuntu bugs.  Ben, can you
> clarify what bug that was, and what the original report was?

Not sure if that was an Ubuntu bug. Pretty sure that was a stick I had,
and added to the list to get rid of the cdrom lun.

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