On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 10:47 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Oliver Neukum wrote:
Just set US_FL_NEEDS_CAP16. If READ CAPACITY(16) fails in that case,
it is clear that something is wrong. It must be set or READ CAPACITY(10)
alone would be taken as giving a valid answer.
You
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Oliver Neukum wrote:
I don't think we want to add another SCSI flag to say that READ
CAPACITY(10) is unreliable.
Why not? It would only be friendly to tell the upper layer
of a malfunction if we know about it.
To what end? What will the upper layer do with this
From: Alan Stern
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Alfredo Dal Ava Junior wrote:
Well, it is causing problems anyway... from user perspective, it's a
Linux compatibility issue, as it works fine on Windows. I'm not an
expert, but I'm wondering that if usb-storage could set capacity as
UNDETERMINED/
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 09:58 +, David Laight wrote:
Part of the problem is that usb-storage has no way to know that
anything strange is going on. It's normal for READ CAPACITY(16) to
fail (this depend on the SCSI level), and it's normal for the READ
CAPACITY(10) to report a value less
From Oliver Neukum [mailto:oneu...@suse.de]
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 09:58 +, David Laight wrote:
Part of the problem is that usb-storage has no way to know that
anything strange is going on. It's normal for READ CAPACITY(16) to
fail (this depend on the SCSI level), and it's normal for
On Mon, 26 Aug 2014, David Leight wrote:
I wonder what the manufacturer would saw in response the bug where
windows shows the incorrect size when trying to partition the disk?
I contacted enclosure manufacturer (Welland) some weeks ago, they are supposed
to escalate my questions to
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Oliver Neukum wrote:
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 16:21 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Alfredo Dal Ava Junior wrote:
Well, it is causing problems anyway... from user perspective, it's a
Linux compatibility issue, as it works fine on Windows. I'm not an
On Mon, 15 Aug 2014 James Bottomley wrote:
So how did the partition get on there at the correct size in the first place?
Even under windows partition managers believe the disk size they get from
the system if the disk is blank.
The HDD can be partitioned outside the enclosure, when connected
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 Alan Stern wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Alfredo Dal Ava Junior wrote:
That's right. I don't know why Windows behaves that way.
Please look this output from diskpart (Windows):
DISKPART list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
-
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Alfredo Dal Ava Junior wrote:
Well, it is causing problems anyway... from user perspective, it's a
Linux compatibility issue, as it works fine on Windows. I'm not an
expert, but I'm wondering that if usb-storage could set capacity as
UNDETERMINED/ Zero (or keep using the
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 Alan Stern wrote:
Part of the problem is that usb-storage has no way to know that anything
strange is going on. It's normal for READ CAPACITY(16) to fail (this depend
on
the SCSI level), and it's normal for the READ
CAPACITY(10) to report a value less than 2 TB.
Really
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 16:21 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Alfredo Dal Ava Junior wrote:
Well, it is causing problems anyway... from user perspective, it's a
Linux compatibility issue, as it works fine on Windows. I'm not an
expert, but I'm wondering that if usb-storage
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