[PATCH] fix fd.o bug 5158, add TYPE_RBC (from 2.6.14) to blockdev.c

Artem Kachitchkine Artem.Kachitchkin at Sun.COM
Tue Nov 29 09:13:51 PST 2005


David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> Eh, I have little to no idea what RBC means (what is it?). A general
> comment is that you want to make sure that it's only disks and we don't
> get any other devices we don't want to mess up.

RBC is Reduced Block Commands, a subset of SBC (SCSI Block Commands). It 
is supposed to define a minimal command set for block addressable 
storage devices. In practice, most RBC devices are FireWire disks.

-Artem.


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