Hi Russell, Thanks for the report, here's what upstream has to say.
------- Forwarded Message Matt, There is no fix that I can see! The ATA field that is getting truncated is longer than the corresponding SCSI field (INQUIRY command response "product identification" field which is 16 bytes long). In this case the "HITACHI HTS72323" entry is 16 bytes long and has been truncated (to the right) as defined by the SAT and SPC-4 standards. lsscsi lists SCSI devices and the "1 line per device" output to carefully tweaked to align vertically and not spill too far to the right. And extra information is appended to the lines with some options (e.g. 'lsscsi -s'). lsscsi does sysfs data-mining and does not issue SCSI commands. This allows normal users to execute lsscsi. The VPD information (page 0x83 as shown in the bug report) only became available in sysfs around lk 3.15 (and its in binary!). Page 0x83 is the device identification VPD page which has flexible field lengths and the capability of providing a lot more information (e.g. WWID and various other unique identifiers). Only some of the information that page provides is mandatory (according to modern standards (SPC-4)). Thoughts? Better documentation (man page)? Doug Gilbert ------- End of Forwarded Message I agree with Doug this should at least be documented, so leaving this bug open until that is solved. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
