Re: usb hdd problems with 2.6.27.2

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On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:25 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> > BTW a single disk in RAID 0 (seen on a HP E200 controller)
> > has a shortened capacity value seen in the midlevel on the
> > corresponding logical drive. That missing chunk is probably
> > where the RAID controller puts its control information.
> > Anyway, playing with the capacity value returned by READ
> > CAPACITY certainly has a precedent.
> 
> usb-storage isn't in the business of altering the data it gets from a 
> device.  It's just a transport.  That's why the sdev->fix_capacity flag 
> exists; we tell the upper layer that the data it gets is going to be 
> wrong and let the upper layer worry about fixing things up.

And you do this by setting US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY in unusual_devs.h

James


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