On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 10:14 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > There are three possibilities: nothing, your proposed patch, and a new > > Nothing is feasible only if Windows uses READ_CAPACITY_10. It seems clear that your patch isn't feasible either, as it doesn't help high-speed devices. > > quirk flag. The flag is safest, but also the hardest to maintain. > > Again the same answer. > > > > I think we can be sure that no drive enclosure will crash > > > with READ_CAPACITY_16. > > > > I wouldn't count on it, but I don't know of any examples. > > > > > I am not sure about card readers. > > > > Or flash drives. > > > > > Does anybody know what Windows does? > > > > Not me. It probably varies with different versions of Windows. > > I'll try to get a Windows machine for a trace. > Can you suggest a tracer for Win7? I don't know of any, offhand. Maybe Google can help. Alternatively, you could install Windows 7 in a virtual machine under Linux and use usbmon. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
