From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754359AbYDAHkj (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:40:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752310AbYDAHk3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:40:29 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:52174 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751771AbYDAHk3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:40:29 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: Novell To: Alan Stern Subject: Re: usb-storage, error reading the last 8 sectors, regression in 2.6.25-rc7 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:38:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Sergey Dolgov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804010938.53853.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 03:58:31 schrieb Alan Stern: > Nevertheless, it's clear that the problem has nothing to do with the > USB stack.  The real source of the problem lies in the device itself, > for reporting a bogus error when in fact nothing went wrong.  That may > also explain why you don't always see the problem -- sometimes the > device works the way it ought to. Reminds me of the devices that can read the last sector but only if it is read by itself. Do you reckon this device may have the "opposite" quirk? Regards Oliver