>Number: 160299 >Category: usb >Synopsis: MicroSDHC-to-USB adapters do not work in FreeBSD 8.x >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-usb >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 29 21:10:08 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Brett Glass >Release: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE >Organization: LARIAT >Environment: >Description: I have tried MicroSDHC cards from several different vendors (Kingston, Sandisk, etc.), with different MicroSDHC-to-USB adapters (also Kingston and Sandisk), in FreeBSD 8.x systems. All cause SCSI errors such as
(da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): SCSI sense: Error code 0x52 Some USB flash memory sticks also produce similar errors. In all cases the system sometimes hangs in the driver and the memory card or stick gets quite warm, as if the system is trying the failed operation again and again. It appears that the problem, which has existed since FreeBSD 4.x, is that the system expects to be able to issue SCSI commands to flash drives (which are not SCSI drives). As a search of recent PRs reveals, this problem has been addressed as a "quirk" on a per-device basis for many individual devices (including memory sticks and cell phones that emulate them), but keeps recurring as new ones are released. A more general fix is needed. >How-To-Repeat: Place a MicroSDHC card in a USB adapter and insert in a FreeBSD 8.x machine. Try to read and write it. >Fix: This behavior is so common that it should not be characterized as a quirk but as a general property of USB flash devices. All USB flash storage devices should have SYNCHRONIZE CACHE and similar SCSI commands disabled by default. These commands should, of course, be enabled for USB-attached ATAPI rotating media, which supports them. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
