On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, gene heskett wrote: > Plugging in a DSO I just bought from fleabay, I get this in dmesg: ... > scsi 13:0:0:0: Direct-Access e-Design DSO Flash Disk 1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: > 2 > sd 13:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 > sd 13:0:0:0: [sdf] Unsupported sector size 1. > sd 13:0:0:0: [sdf] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B) > sd 13:0:0:0: [sdf] 1-byte physical blocks ... > A one byte per sector disk? Boggles my mind. That's a new one for me too. > Is there anything I can do about it, and updating its firmware, besides > finding a winderz box? Well, you could patch your kernel to use 512 as the sector size whenever the device says 1 byte. But you'd probably prefer to fix the device -- which means updating its firmware. The manufacturers may not be aware of this problem, though. Perhaps they'll point you to a fix if you inform them. Alan Stern -- 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
