Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:00:19 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: lydianconcepts@gmail.com Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quirk for this? Message-ID: <20070225.230019.1649768891.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <7579f7fb0702231017rdc246ebqeface91c9d5481e3@mail.gmail.com> References: <45DE6C64.8020400@samsco.org> <20070223.100839.112608684.imp@bsdimp.com> <7579f7fb0702231017rdc246ebqeface91c9d5481e3@mail.gmail.com>
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"Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts@gmail.com> writes:
: > The question is: Given that I know that the first USB/CF adapter
: > always reports one too big, is there a way this can be fixed?
:
: There are two problems here that I see:
:
: a) The GEOM taste code cannot be overridden.
:
: b) How do we accomodate/detect broken h/w?
:
: I'm inclined to think that GEOM stuff cannot/should not be "fixed".
: The second question is the harder one.
:
: You personally can fix this for yourself by doing your own specialized
: quirk matching and just adjusting the READ CAPACITY results
: accordingly. We have to ask whether this particular breakage is both
: widespread enough and the devices important enough to try and
: generalize some solution for.
I took a look at Linux, and they have a quirk for this. A bunch of
cameras have this bug, as do iPods and a few media readers...
Warner
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