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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] [v2] ide: Adds wwn=hex qdev option allowing


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] [v2] ide: Adds wwn=hex qdev option allowing the user to specify a disk's World Wide Name
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:06:44 +0100
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Il 13/03/2012 14:53, Floris Bos / Maxnet ha scritto:
>> Words 84, 87, 108-111 should also be set in the ide_atapi_identify
>> routine: - 84 and 87 to 0x4000 if no WWN, 0x4100 if WWN provided -
>> 108..111 to the WWN in the same awkward-endian layout. Otherwise looks
>> good. Paolo 
> 
> I leave it to someone else to write a patch for the ATAPI/CF-ATA stuff.
> I'm not sure if there's a real use-case for WWN's for removable storage.
> 
> And I am not so familiar with the ATA specification that I feel
> confident enough to make changes that also result in different behavior
> when no WWN is present.
> 84 and 87 are currently not set at all in ide_atapi_identify.

Fair enough, thanks!

Paolo



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