Re: Problem with USB-to-SATA adapters (was: AS2105-based enclosure size issues with >2TB HDDs)

James Bottomley
2014-08-27T20:01:56Z

On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 15:21 -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
>
> > Did you try read capacity 16 on it? What happened? (the AS2105 rejects
> > read capacity 16, so there's no reliable way to deduce the capacity of
> > drives over 2TB).
>
> OK, I had to track down which package contains sg_readcap.
>
> The adapter that fails gives this output:
>
> # sg_readcap --16 /dev/sdb
> bad field in READ CAPACITY (16) cdb including unsupported service action

OK, so that's definitely the tame taxonomy.

James