Re: differing sector sizes between USB enclosures.

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 01:38:07PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:

 > > usb 1-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=2329
 > > usb 1-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
 > > usb 1-3.1: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge
 > > usb 1-3.1: Manufacturer: JMicron
 > > usb 1-3.1: SerialNumber: DC11017369FF
 > > usb-storage 1-3.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
 > > usb-storage 1-3.1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 152d pid 2329: 8020
 > > scsi10 : usb-storage 1-3.1:1.0
 > > usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
 > > usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
 > > scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WDC WD30 EFRX-68AX9N0          PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 28 00 00 00
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
 > >  sdc: sdc1
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
 > > sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
 > > 
 > > I just bought a new USB3 enclosure, and put the same 3TB disk in and saw this instead..
 > > 
 > > usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=5106
 > > usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
 > > usb 1-1: Product: AS2105
 > > usb 1-1: Manufacturer: ASMedia
 > > usb 1-1: SerialNumber:      WD-WMC1T1017369
 > > usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
 > > usb-storage 1-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 5106: 800000
 > > scsi11 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
 > > scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WDC WD30 EFRX-68AX9N0     80.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 732566646 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 732566646 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
 > >  sdc: unknown partition table
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 732566646 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
 > > sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
 > > 
 > > The quirk listed for the newer enclosure
 > > tells it not to use UAS, but is that a prerequisite for READ CAPACITY(16)?
 > 
 > No, that has nothing to do with it.  UAS is merely the transport;

ok

 > the commands that get sent are the same either way.

So can you explain why the "Trying READ CAPACITY 16" spew happens with the first
enclosure, but not the 2nd ?

 > > I'd rather not reformat & sync 3TB if I can avoid it. Am I screwed ?
 > 
 > You could always try to get a different enclosure that worked better. :-)

These things are always a crapshoot. I lost count long ago how many
broken USB2 ones I've seen. The jmicron bridge above is the first one
I've never had a single problem with.  Now I get to start over with USB3.

 > Still, even with the existing enclosure you might be able to work 
 > around the problem.  Just rewrite the partition table, dividing all 
 > the starting-block and number-of-blocks values by 8.  (Better keep a 
 > copy of the original partition table lying around, just in case!)
 > 
 > On the other hand, I don't know if the filesystem will work after that.  
 > If it uses physical sector sizes to record where things are located, it 
 > won't work.  Easy enough to try it and see, though...

Yeah, that sounds like the opposite of a fun time.

thanks,
	Dave

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