Re: [usb-storage] Re: 3.16 commit 89fb4cd errors on drives without SYNC CACHE

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > usb-storage sets wce_default_on only for devices that are marked with 
> > the US_FL_WRITE_CACHE quirk flag.  Currently only two devices have that 
> > flag: the Seagate Portable HDD (vendor ID 0x0bc2, product ID 0x2300) 
> > and the Western Digital My Password HDD (vendor ID 0x1058, product ID 
> > 0x070a).
> 
> So Jeff has a drive that on its own claims WCE=1 but doesn't support
> SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE(10).  I'm not sure what to do about it as it sounds
> inherently dangerous.

Maybe we should log a one-time warning when this happens and turn off 
sdkp->WCE.  There's not much else we _can_ do about it.

Alan Stern

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