On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 17:57 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a report about a device that will show an error with the
> > > FIX_CAPACITY
> > > quirk and another device that needs it. The descriptors are identical.
> > > What
> > > is to be done? Remove it, keep it, try some heuristic?
> >
> > It usually doesn't hurt to have an extra FIX_CAPACITY. In this case you
> > might be able to solve the problem by asking the user to re-partition the
> > device.
>
> The capacity is incorrect. Mishandling a compliant device is not really
> acceptable and for existing disks repartitioning is not an option.
Can you provide more details? For each of the two devices, what are:
The apparent capacity with FIX_CAPACITY set?
The apparent capacity with FIX_CAPACITY not set (presumably
exactly 1 block higher)?
The actual capacity?
The contents of the partition table?
The exact errors encountered?
Alan Stern
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