Hi,
thanks to my stupidity I found out only last weekend that `scsiinfo -i` in
fact does create the fifo offset behaviour. However, `scsiinfo -a` as
stefan described does not (this is why I haven't tried `-i` up to now).
Well, the good news is that almost any other queries of scsiinfo instead
of INQUIRY resets the device to its normal behaviour.
And there's another workaround: Stop udevd before connecting the device
and manually create the node /dev/sda. udevd is the bad guy who does the
INQUIRY to detect the connected hardware.
And yes, the firmware is crap. At USB, scsiinfo is only useful as a very
poor random generator. The output is only garbage from each command to the
next. However, I won't risk a firmware update up to now.
Many thanks to Stefan Richter and Al Viro.
Stefan
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