>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Can you shed some light on these devices and maybe an alternate way >> of working around this issue? Drives with 4KB physical blocks are >> coming out soon so dumbing down the SCSI level is not going to cut it >> for much longer... Alan> We won't get into trouble until there are USB interfaces for those Alan> drives. Of course, that's just postponing the inevitable... Yeah, I have a pile of 4KB drives. The industry transition is set to complete in 2011 but vendors may ship well before then. It's only a matter of time. Especially in the capacity-centric desktop space. Alan> The problem we faced was that several devices would simply crash Alan> when they received a REPORT LUNS command. More than just one type Alan> from a single vendor; there were several different models that all Alan> failed the same way. *sigh* -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
