On Sunday, April 15, 2012 02:44:25 PM Alan Stern did opine: > 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. If it was a makers problem, I'd think the web would be alive with similar squawks, and this is all opensource code too. It appears I have a unique situation here. I get that same 1 byte sector thing regardless of which port I plug it into, including direct to a motherboard port. > Alan Stern I have posted a message on the seeeq forum in the DSO Nano area, containing this info, and asking for a clue or 3. But that was about 2 hours ago, and its a nice warm (83F) Sunday here so I didn't expect a 15 minute response. In the meantime, I'm looking around for a winderz box whose owner will let me install the windows version of dfu-utils. I have the .dfu files on a USB key if I can find a usable box. Thanks for looking at it Alan. In case this drags on, what file would I patch to put that conditional in? Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it. -- Charles Merrill Smith -- 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
