Re: USB scsiglue does not work with Adaptec USBXChange + SCSI scanner

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> > That was the REQUEST SENSE command.  It also failed; the device did not
> > return any sense information.  This is the "incomplete SCSI frame" you
> > suspected.  (The "short read transfer" message above occurred at this
> > point; the device sent 0 bytes of sense data instead of 18 bytes as it
> > should have.)  Failure to send the sense data is clearly a bug in the 
> > scanner.
> 
> But the same scanner worked perfectly with dc395 PCI SCSI card.

Hmm.  Well then, maybe that means the scanner handles REQUEST SENSE 
correctly and the adapter doesn't.

> > usb-storage treats failure of REQUEST SENSE as an error requiring a
> > device reset.  The remainder of the usbmon log shows the reset, which
> > worked.  But resets are always followed by TEST UNIT READY, to verify
> > the device's status after being reset, and the same sequence of events
> > repeated -- over and over again.  That's why your scan didn't work.
> 
> Thanks for the analysis. Is there a chance for a work-around that could
> be accepted to the vanilla?

Can you think of a workaround for a failed REQUEST SENSE?  I can't.  
The sense information is absolutely vital.

Alan Stern

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