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

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Message-Id: <200804010938.53853.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:38:53 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
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

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
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