Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

2007-10-08 Thread Stefan Rutzinger
Hi, thanks to my stupidity I found out only last weekend that `scsiinfo -i` in fact does create the fifo offset behaviour. However, `scsiinfo -a` as stefan described does not (this is why I haven't tried `-i` up to now). Well, the good news is that almost any other queries of scsiinfo instead

Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Richter
On 27 Sep, Stefan Rutzinger wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> By the way, in addition to the 8 bytes offset which you found, there is >> also a difference in the reported disk size. The USB firmware says >> 390721969 sectors, the FireWire firmware says 390721968 sectors. The

Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

2007-09-27 Thread Stefan Rutzinger
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: (Adding Cc: linux-scsi) Stefan Rutzinger wrote: I experience a very weird offset in the data from my FW disk. It worked well last time i used it, which is about half a year ago. Unfortunately i can't tell what exactly changed in the meanwhile, i conti

Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

2007-09-27 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:45:09AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Al Viro wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > >> Strange. I haven't heard of this before. From which vendor and model > >> is the device, and do you know which chip is on its IDE bridge board?

Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

2007-09-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Strange. I haven't heard of this before. From which vendor and model >> is the device, and do you know which chip is on its IDE bridge board? > > I've seen it, all right. 8 bytes stuck in FIFO, pl3507 IDE bridge

Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

2007-09-26 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Strange. I haven't heard of this before. From which vendor and model > is the device, and do you know which chip is on its IDE bridge board? I've seen it, all right. 8 bytes stuck in FIFO, pl3507 IDE bridge, and judging by google

Re: /dev/sda with 8 byte offset

2007-09-26 Thread Stefan Richter
(Adding Cc: linux-scsi) Stefan Rutzinger wrote: > I experience a very weird offset in the data from my FW disk. It worked > well last time i used it, which is about half a year ago. Unfortunately i > can't tell what exactly changed in the meanwhile, i continued updating > debian testing an thin