Re: usb-storage, error reading the last 8 sectors, regression in2.6.25-rc7

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 10:29:23 EST


On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 03:58:31 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > Nevertheless, it's clear that the problem has nothing to do with the
> > USB stack.  The real source of the problem lies in the device itself,
> > for reporting a bogus error when in fact nothing went wrong.  That may
> > also explain why you don't always see the problem -- sometimes the
> > device works the way it ought to.
>
> Reminds me of the devices that can read the last sector but only if it is read
> by itself. Do you reckon this device may have the "opposite" quirk?

Could be something like that.

Alan Stern

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