Re: Large disk drives

2014-11-07 Thread Norman Diamond
From: David Laight > > From: Norman Diamond > ... >> By the way, I've seen some USB bridges that lie about whether they >> performed various SAT commands (ATA passthrough), but told the truth >> about performing an ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE through SAT.  So we could

Re: Large disk drives

2014-11-06 Thread Norman Diamond
If READ_CAPACITY_10 returns something that looks valid but might be off by a multiple of 2TB, and READ_CAPACITY_16 fails, what do we really want to do when we read the partition table?   If the partition table indicates that everything fits in the capacity returned by READ_CAPACITY_10, great, it is

USB 3.0 failure and possible regression in kernel 3.8.0

2013-06-11 Thread Norman Diamond
Kernels somewhere around 2.6.35 could handle USB 3.0 at random sometimes, but kernel 3.8.0 fails consistently. I know I should try to bisect this, but I don't have time and the randomness of the older kernel doesn't help. lspci: 0d:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Hos

Re: JMicron 20337 (152d:2338) and 3TB

2012-08-31 Thread Norman Diamond
Robert Hancock wrote: On 05/08/2012 06:12 PM, Norman Diamond wrote: On Wed, 2012/5/9, Alan Stern wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2012, Norman Diamond wrote: Alan Stern wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2012, Norman Diamond wrote: Sometimes I guess a USB-to-[S]ATA bridge might obey ATA passthru of an ATA Identify

Re: SECURITY ERASE UNIT gets IDNF instead of ABRT?

2012-08-27 Thread Norman Diamond
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SECURITY ERASE UNIT gets IDNF instead of ABRT?

2012-08-27 Thread Norman Diamond
If I understand the standard correctly, if SECURITY ERASE UNIT fails to erase a bad block then the result should have the ABRT bit set. There are some kinds of operations where a drive might set IDNF instead of ABRT, but if I understand correctly, SECURITY ERASE UNIT is not one of them. In one