Re: External USB3 HDD: logical sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

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Am Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:39:30 -0400 (EDT)
schrieb Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Marc Joliet wrote:
> 
> > OK, I got it down to 763 lines total because of various kernel messages and I
> > was worried that they might provide important context, so it's not quite down to
> > 200 lines, but I hope that's close enough. The logs for the reconnect start
> > after line 323 ("kernel: usb 4-2: USB disconnect, device number 2").
> 
> All right.  Here is the important part from the first connection 
> (starting at line 146):
> 
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: dd068e40 1.797762 S Bo:4:002:2 - 31 =
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: 55534243 04000000 20000000 8000109e 10000000 00000000 00000000 200000
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: U S B C  . . . .    . . .  . . . .  . . . .  . . . .  . . . .    . .
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: dd068e40 1.797775 C Bo:4:002:2 0 31 >
> 
> The computer sends a READ CAPACITY(16) command to the drive.
> 
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: d1705300 1.797782 S Bi:4:002:1 - 32 <
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: d1705300 1.800050 C Bi:4:002:1 -121 16 =
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: 00000001 5d50a3a7 00000200 00000000
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: . . . .  ] P . .  . . . .  . . . .
> 
> The drive responds, saying it has 5860533160 (1 + 0x15d50a3a7 in hex)
> 512-byte blocks.
> 
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: dd068e40 1.800064 S Bi:4:002:1 - 13 <
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: dd068e40 1.800084 C Bi:4:002:1 0 13 =
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: 55534253 04000000 14000000 00
> Mär 22 23:06:53 marcec usbmon[193]: U S B S  . . . .  . . . .  .
> 
> The drive sends a status response, saying the command completed 
> successfully but the output was 20 bytes shorter than requested, which 
> means that only the first 12 bytes of the 16-byte reply above were 
> valid.  Since the first 8 bytes of the response are the highest block 
> number and the next 4 bytes are the block size, that's okay.
> 
> The same command and response were repeated starting at line 201.
> 
> After the second connection, the corresponding command occurs starting
> at line 455:
> 
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: 7c9d0900 14.350943 S Bo:4:003:2 - 31 =
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: 55534243 04000000 20000000 8000109e 10000000 00000000 00000000 200000
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: U S B C  . . . .    . . .  . . . .  . . . .  . . . .  . . . .    . .
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: 7c9d0900 14.356106 C Bo:4:003:2 0 31 >
> 
> The computer sends a READ CAPACITY(16) command.
> 
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: dc19be40 14.356130 S Bi:4:003:1 - 32 <
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: dc19be40 14.380292 C Bi:4:003:1 -121 16 =
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: 00000000 2baa1474 00001000 00000000
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: . . . .  + . . t  . . . .  . . . .
> 
> The drive responds, saying it has 732566645 (1 + 0x2baa1474 in hex) 
> 4096-byte blocks.
> 
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: 7c9d0900 14.380318 S Bi:4:003:1 - 13 <
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: 7c9d0900 14.380336 C Bi:4:003:1 0 13 =
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: 55534253 04000000 14000000 00
> Mär 22 23:08:12 marcec usbmon[1007]: U S B S  . . . .  . . . .  .
> 
> And again, the status is okay but the response is 20 bytes shorter than 
> requested.
> 
> Interestingly, at line 503 there is a READ CAPACITY(10) command.  The
> response was the same as for the READ CAPACITY(16) -- this time the
> 10-byte form of the command was sufficient because now the block count
> is able to fit into four bytes.
> 
> As you can see, the drive (or rather, the USB adapter) sent two
> different responses to the very same READ CAPACITY(16) command.  This
> must be caused by the adapter's firmware.
> 
> Alan Stern

Thank you for taking the time to look at this.

As a last step, I'll send the log from the third case (load uas module, then
plug in drive, problem doesn't show up).

-- 
Marc Joliet
--
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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