Friday, May 21, 2004

Storage/ PLScsi/ Authors/

Pat LaVarre typed the source code, but Pat

thanks Paul Smith for proposing --from /dev/stdin and --to /dev/stdout

thanks Luben Tuikov for proposing a gccscsi interpreter

thanks Luben Tuikov for explaining the conventional Linux coding style of gccscsi

thanks Jack Bombeeck for Linux `ls -l /dev/sg[0123]` discovery of /dev/sg* devices

thanks Tommy Knowlton for the port to DeviceIoControl in Win NT/2K/XP

thanks Tommy Knowlton for the discovery of ScsiTaskUserClient in Mac OS

Also, re learning how commonly people only slightly misinterpret the ANSI SCSI standards, Pat

thanks the ANSI T10 & T13 committee members who share stories of confusion

thanks the Microsoft programmer of SCSI hosts who first chose to ignore the offset 4 additionalLength field of op x12 Inquiry data

thanks the Microsoft programmer of SCSI devices who first zeroed the offset 4 additionalLength field of op x12 Inquiry data

thanks the Connectix programmer of SCSI devices who first zeroed the offset 7 additionalLength field of op x03 RequestSense data

(Posted by Pat LaVarre)