Re: System hangs when using USB 3.0 HD with on Ubuntu

[Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:18:51PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Alan" = Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:
> 
> I'm guessing Doug is out today because he didn't forward the note
> below.  Just passing the info along...
> 
> 
> >> It is needed by the transport protocol(s).
> 
> Alan> I don't understand; can you explain more fully?  Which transport
> Alan> protocol(s) need to use the Sector Count?  The USB transport
> Alan> protocol doesn't; it encodes the transfer length in a wrapper.
> Alan> The bridge chip should interpret the wrapper instead of looking
> Alan> inside the SAT command.
> 
> Doug posted to the T10 list and here's what Jim Hatfield from Seagate
> responded:
> 
>      For ATA (SATA or PATA), the Count field should NEVER be zero,
>      because neither interface supports zero-length data transfer for
>      any protocol (dma, pio, etc).
> 
>      In ATA, 'N/A' is defined the way it is because there are some
>      ancient implementations for which there are vendor specific
>      differences.

So, if Jim is correct, then this may not be a bug in the Buffalo device?
Or is the phase error in the status of the CSW still an incorrect
response after a stall on what the device thinks is an invalid command?

Sarah Sharp