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On 12/4/18 3:31 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So as usual, they are not very Linux friendly.  Figures.  I was hoping
> 
> The main problem with Linux is that the drivers at SCSI level in the kernel are
> worse than they could be, so if you like to get better results, you should
> encourage the kernel people to do their homework.
> 
> One of the biggest problem on Linux is e.g. that the SCSI drivers only return
> 16 bytes of error information, but the standard says that the error information
> contains at least 18 bytes.

That's good to know. Are there any open source OSes that do it properly? 
I'd love to look at their code.