From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:49:52 +0100
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On Tuesday 22 January 2013 11:05:35 James Bottomley wrote:
> > May  3 18:19:06 relampago3 kernel: [ 3948.472796] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf]
> > 1565565872 512-byte logical blocks: (801 GB/746 GiB)
> 
> This looks like a wrap around of your actual size.  This appears to
> indicate the device isn't replying correctly to READ CAPACITY.  The
> conventional return from READ CAPACITY should be -1 which would trigger
> us to retry with READ CAPACITY(16).

What can we do? The answer the device is giving is quite ordinary.
Do we need another quirk and an associated flag?

	Regards
		Oliver