On Tuesday 10 January 2017 21:02:09 Alan Stern wrote:
> Quick summary: READ CAPACITY(10) does not include physical sector
> size information whereas READ CAPACITY(16) does.  But the kernel
> uses READ CAPACITY(10) by default for USB drives, because quite a
> few of them die when given a READ CAPACITY(16) command.

Ah :-( Are there lot of "broken" devices for creating blacklist?

> If you can suggest a way to fix this, we'll be glad to hear it.

Tom Yan wrote that smartctl/hdparm "works" because they use the SCSI ATA 
PASSTHROUGH command. It is not an option for kernel?

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Pali Rohár
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