On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 16:06 -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Was there any resolution as to how large disk drives would be handled > if their interface did not support the "capacity" request that would > tell how large they were?
Realistically no ... unless someone comes up with a reliable heuristic to give us the size. > Or as an alternative, is there any way to avoid buying USB-SCSI > interfaces that do not support the large-capacity request? > Unfortunately, such devices work OK with Windows (since Windows trusts > what the partition table says), you can't just say to the salesperson > "It has to work on drives over 3 TB." This is a stopgap: your 3TB drive can be guessed as the 16 bit capacity plus 2TB, but the same won't happen for a 5TB device. Believing the partition table gives us a chicken and egg problem because something still has to get the partition table on to the device. I don't think "don't buy something that doesn't work" is a hugely unreasonable response to this. James > Dale > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
