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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with USB-to-SATA adapters (was: AS2105-based enclosure
 size issues with >2TB HDDs)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:01:55 -0700
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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