On Wednesday 28 February 2007 09:03, Warner Losh wrote: > Create a new quirk READ_CAPACITY_OFFBY1 and add a quirk for the > SanDISK ImageMate that I have that suffers from this problem (the > SDDR-31). It intercepts the READ_CAPACITY response and adjusts it > from number of sectors to max sector for devices with this quirk. > > Reading the Linux source suggests that there are a host of > other devices with this issue, including iPods and some popular > cameras. I've not added quirks for them, since I don't have the > devices in front of me to test.
Couldn't you automatically test for this? ie try and read the last sector. Obviously if there is a real error in the last sector you'd get a bogus result but I don't think that is likely to be very common :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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