On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 12:15 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> The USB storage glue sets the try_rc_10_first flag in an attempt to
> avoid wedging poorly implemented legacy USB devices.
> 
> If the device capacity is too large to be expressed in the provided
> response buffer field of READ CAPACITY(10), a well-behaved device will
> set the reported capacity to 0xFFFFFFFF. We will then attempt to issue a
> READ CAPACITY(16) to obtain the real capacity.
> 
> Since this part of the discovery logic is not covered by the first_scan
> flag, a warning will be printed a couple of times times per revalidate
> attempt if we upgrade from READ CAPACITY(10) to READ CAPACITY(16).
> 
> Remember that we have successfully issued READ CAPACITY(16) so we can
> take the fast path on subsequent revalidate attempts.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>


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