[Bug 219652] READ CAPACITY(16) not used on large USB-attached drive in recent kernels

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219652

--- Comment #9 from Kris Karas (bugs-a21@moonlit-rail.com) ---
Just saw Alan's comment #7 (posting race).

FWIW, there are two drives showing this error.  The first is a Toshiba
DT01ACA300, and the second, a Seagate ST3000DM001.  So it's rather unlikely to
be a drive firmware bug.

Given that this patch has been out since 6.9.1 (if I read git correctly), it's
a bit odd that my searches for relevant/duplicate bug reports came up empty. 
Hardware bug with this particular USB/SATA bridge?  I checked the
manufacturer's website, and the model 1610 sports an embedded 8051 uP with
downloadable firmware; however, there are no firmware resources on their
website.

I found one "smoking gun" in this report from site hddguru:
https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=33369
It indicates that other initio USB-to-SATA adapters report sector_count-1 in
some cases.

If this is specific to Initio adapters, perhaps the easiest patch here is to
assume that if read_capacity_10 is reported as 0xfffffffe, then it's buggy
hardware, treat it as 0xffffffff and proceed thusly.

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