Off the cuff, this really looks like something for the SCSI layer. I'll
bet there are SCSI devices that do something similar...
And, I'm generally reluctant to modify the data to/from a device unless
usb-storage *really* has to in order to make it work....
Matt
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 04:58:17PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an usb-storage enclosure that houses a normal desktop
> harddrive. I have been wondering why disks in that enclosure
> seemed to be having less errors than when connected to a
> normal IDE connector.
>
> The reason is: USB-storage is ignoring a hint that something is
> wrong. Probably my enclosure is also not completely following specs,
> but Linux is ignoring the hint as well....
>
> On hitting a bad block, the disk reports error. The USB converter
> then reports "auto-sense-required", and this is carried out. However
> at this point, my USB enclosure returns all-zeroes. This is
> considered non-fatal by the kernel.
>
> I'm guessing not many people are testing these things with
> bad drives. So, I don't know wether or not other USB converters
> handle this situation more gracefully.
>
> As a patch, I've decided to set the sense key to "vendor specific"
> (9), and then no "additional sense" (0:0), if, and only if the device
> didn't return any valid sense info.
>
> The rest of the kernel then correctly interprets the situation
> as an IO error.
>
> Roger Wolff.
>
> --- linux-2.6.20.3.clean/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c 2007-03-13 19:27:08.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.20.3.kostunrix/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c 2007-08-16 16:47:00.000000000 +0200
> @@ -629,6 +629,14 @@
>
> /* let's clean up right away */
> memcpy(srb->sense_buffer, us->sensebuf, US_SENSE_SIZE);
> + if (((srb->sense_buffer[2]&0xf) == 0) &&
> + (srb->sense_buffer[12] == 0) &&
> + (srb->sense_buffer[13] == 0)) {
> + /* Hmmmmm. The device requested sense, but then
> + declined to give us more info.... -- REW */
> + srb->sense_buffer[2] |= 0x09; /* Vendor specific */
> + }
> +
> srb->resid = old_resid;
> srb->request_buffer = old_request_buffer;
> srb->request_bufflen = old_request_bufflen;
>
>
>
> --
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