Re: usb-storage, error reading the last 8 sectors, regression in 2.6.25-rc7

From: Matthew Dharm
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 10:34:40 EST


On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:28:52AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> 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.

Didn't I see some SCSI patches go by to implement exactly this change?
That is, only read the last sector by itself?

Matt

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