On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 13:36 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > This is an old problem, but it was never resolved and it still affects > people (Bugzilla #89511). In short, there are USB-(S)ATA bridges that > claim to be write-back but don't support the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE > command. > This causes errors when filesystems try to flush data out to the disk. OK, maybe this is a stupid idea, but could we test the command as we enumerate the slave and store the result? Regards Oliver -- 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