linux-kernel - Re: usb-storage, error reading the last 8 sectors, regression in 2.6.25-rc7

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0804011028230.3993-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:28:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
cc:	Sergey Dolgov <solkaa@...il.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: usb-storage, error reading the last 8 sectors, regression in
 2.6.25-rc7

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> 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?

Could be something like that.

Alan Stern

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